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    The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Generally considered to be the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • (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...
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    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...
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    Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. The CDC 6600, released...
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  • 6600 may refer to: CDC 6600, a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first manufactured in 1965 Nokia 6600, a Nokia smartphone released in...
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  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS LAB CISL. "CDC 6600". National Center for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved March 28, 2023. "The CDC 6600 arrives at CERN". CERN. Retrieved...
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    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....
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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    operating system developed by Control Data Corporation in 1964 for the CDC 6600, generally considered the first supercomputer in the world. The Chippewa...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Scoreboarding is a centralized method, first used in the CDC 6600 computer, for dynamically scheduling instructions so that they can execute out of order...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • were several versions. The original 1700 was constructed using air-cooled CDC 6600-like cordwood logic modules and core memory, although later models used...
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