The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Generally considered to be the...
55 KB (6,303 words) - 07:48, 8 October 2024
Corporation in the 1960s. It consisted of the CDC 6200, CDC 6300, CDC 6400, CDC 6500, CDC 6600 and CDC 6700 computers, which were all extremely rapid and efficient...
42 KB (4,611 words) - 12:58, 27 October 2024
The CDC 7600 was designed by Seymour Cray to be the successor to the CDC 6600, extending Control Data's dominance of the supercomputer field into the...
26 KB (2,522 words) - 07:02, 30 January 2024
Seymour Cray (section CDC's Chippewa Falls laboratory)
the CDC 6600. Nonetheless, several special features of the 6600 first started to appear in the 3000 series. Although in terms of hardware the 6600 was...
30 KB (3,607 words) - 17:11, 6 November 2024
based on the architecture of the CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 supercomputers, respectively The 200 series based on the CDC STAR-100—released in the 1970s. The...
26 KB (3,728 words) - 03:22, 10 May 2024
(160-G) * CDC 3000 series – 3100, 3200, 3300, 3400, 3500, 3600, 3800 * CDC 6000 series – 6200, 6400, 6500, 6700 * CDC 6600 * CDC 7600 * CDC CYBER – 17...
53 KB (6,662 words) - 19:06, 1 October 2024
favour of new members of the 6000 series, and then the CDC Cyber series, initially based on the 6600 design but spanning a wide range of performance. The...
23 KB (2,483 words) - 16:37, 14 October 2024
6600 may refer to: CDC 6600, a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first manufactured in 1965 Nokia 6600, a Nokia smartphone released in...
778 bytes (107 words) - 03:00, 22 September 2023
Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. The CDC 6600, released...
39 KB (3,537 words) - 02:20, 5 November 2024
INFORMATION SYSTEMS LAB CISL. "CDC 6600". National Center for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved March 28, 2023. "The CDC 6600 arrives at CERN". CERN. Retrieved...
7 KB (874 words) - 23:49, 1 August 2024
CDC 8600 was the last of Seymour Cray's supercomputer designs while he worked for Control Data Corporation. As the natural successor to the CDC 6600 and...
9 KB (1,421 words) - 23:08, 24 July 2023
Bhend, Kent Steiner, Raymon Kort, and Neil R. Lincoln. Discussion topics include CDC 1604, CDC 6600, CDC 7600, CDC 8600, CDC STAR-100 and Seymour Cray....
13 KB (1,506 words) - 23:33, 14 October 2024
Peter Lax (section The CDC 6600 incident)
part of an anti-war protest, the Transcendental Students took hostage a CDC 6600 super computer at NYU's Courant Institute which Lax had been instrumental...
17 KB (1,498 words) - 17:41, 21 October 2024
UNIVAC 1101, CDC 160, CDC 6600, the LINC, the PDP-1, and the UNIVAC 1107, used ones' complement arithmetic. Successors of the CDC 6600 continued to use...
11 KB (1,341 words) - 22:27, 15 June 2024
the peripheral processors surrounding the CDC 6600 and 7600. "A Programmer's Reference Manual for the CDC-160" by Douglas W. Jones Flamm, Kenneth (1988)...
9 KB (1,002 words) - 18:27, 8 October 2024
operating system developed by Control Data Corporation in 1964 for the CDC 6600, generally considered the first supercomputer in the world. The Chippewa...
5 KB (235 words) - 12:11, 23 December 2023
supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600 became operational in 1964. Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated...
23 KB (2,171 words) - 03:02, 7 November 2024
design. That new machine was officially announced in August 1963 as the CDC 6600, causing IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. to write a now-famous memo asking...
21 KB (3,186 words) - 23:16, 28 August 2024
See CDC 6600 CP architecture. COMPASS PP is the assembly language for the PP (Peripheral Processor), only running operating system code. See CDC 6600 PP...
4 KB (499 words) - 17:46, 27 October 2023
Scoreboarding (section The original 6600 algorithm)
Scoreboarding is a centralized method, first used in the CDC 6600 computer, for dynamically scheduling instructions so that they can execute out of order...
9 KB (1,155 words) - 06:46, 10 August 2024
one microsecond per instruction, about one million instructions per second. The CDC 6600, designed by Seymour Cray, was finished in 1964 and marked the transition...
81 KB (7,901 words) - 22:22, 9 November 2024
for farmers" when asked why he left this out of the CDC 6600. Later, he included parity in the CDC 7600, which caused pundits to remark that "apparently...
30 KB (3,404 words) - 05:02, 31 May 2024
Corporation (CDC) 6600 built in 1964 by Seymour Cray. Its maximum speed was 40 MHz or 3 million floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The CDC 6600 was...
59 KB (6,591 words) - 22:49, 29 October 2024
compiler for IMP existed as early as 1965 and was used to program the CDC 6600 time-sharing system, which was in use at the Institute for Defense Analyses...
7 KB (618 words) - 02:21, 29 January 2023
were several versions. The original 1700 was constructed using air-cooled CDC 6600-like cordwood logic modules and core memory, although later models used...
7 KB (851 words) - 09:28, 13 April 2024
written to. It is found in instruction set architectures including the CDC 6600, System/360 and ARM64, among others. Zero appears as a constant in many...
2 KB (212 words) - 19:28, 9 March 2024
ETA10 (redirect from CDC Cyber 2XX)
negotiated Cray hardware in exchange. CDC had a strong history of creating powerful supercomputers, starting with the CDC 6600. One of the most famous computer...
18 KB (2,249 words) - 03:34, 31 July 2024
technology, for example the Extended Core Storage (ECS) auxiliary memory in the CDC 6600, which was up to 2 million 60-bit words. Core rope memory is a read-only...
41 KB (5,528 words) - 17:07, 3 October 2024
as far as the 1960s having been used in IBM System/360 Model 91 and in CDC 6600. Modern high-end desktop and workstation processors such as the AMD Ryzen...
23 KB (2,029 words) - 04:44, 12 November 2024
and early 1980s. The first machine to use out-of-order execution was the CDC 6600 (1964), designed by James E. Thornton, which uses a scoreboard to avoid...
36 KB (4,280 words) - 18:35, 21 October 2024