Sujet : Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers
De : already5chosen (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Michael S)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 19. May 2025, 14:55:49
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On Mon, 19 May 2025 01:56:50 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2025 01:08:11 +0000, quadibloc wrote:
Yes, but the CDC 6600 and 7600, while powerful computers, were
ordinary computers. They were not vector machines.
They were pipelined machines.
7600 was.
6600 had some parts pipelined, but execution units were non-pipelined.
They were orders of magnitude faster
than anything from IBM.
That sounds like exaggeration.
They pioneered the very concept of a
“supercomputer”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_StretchThere was nothing “ordinary” about that.