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

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

Raising the CDC 6500 from the dead: Paul Allen’s engineers attempt toughest computer restoration yet. by Todd Bishop on December 15, 2013 at 10:33 am December 15, 2013 at 10:43 am ...

CDC 6600 (1965): Generally regarded as the world’s first successful super-computer, the CDC 6600 was capable of carrying out three million instructions per second and its components filled a ...

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.

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.

The computer's arrival excited students, ... The CDC 6600 was announced in 1964. The CDC 6500 came around a few years later. Shuey said the CDC 6500's interactive console, ...

Visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and you'll get close enough to smell the machines that were the fastest computers of their time. Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600 and ...