The first computer generally regarded as a supercomputer is the CDC 6600, designed by Seymour Cray and launched in 1964. The ...

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Control Data 6600: The CDC 6600 was the flagship mainframe supercomputer of the 6000 series of computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Docubyte / INK ...

The computer at Livermore will be used for nuclear weapons simulations. ... Using a CDC 6600, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) produced a 10-day forecast in 12 days.

Mr. Norris built the company into the fourth-largest data processing business in the world, worth $5 billion in 1984. His company introduced the CDC 6600, the first commercial supercomputer, 10 ...

By the time the CDC 6600 arrived, IBM had tripled the speed of its fastest system – the infamous 7030 Stretch – thanks to its adoption of transistors. But the CDC 6600 upped the ante.

In 1946, ENIAC, the first (nonsuper) computer, processed about 500 FLOPS. ... CDC 6600 Rapidly sifted through 3 million of CERN’s experimental research images per year 2.