Historical perspective
The descriptor super computing first appeared in the publication New York World in 1929. The term was in reference to the large, custom-built IBM tabulator installed at Columbia University. The IBM tabulator is depicted following:
IBM Tabulators and Accounting Machine
The burgeoning supercomputing field was later buttressed with contributions from the famed Seymour Cray, with his brainchild, the CDC6600, that appeared in 1964. The machine, for all intents and purposes, was the first supercomputer. Cray was an applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer. He subsequently built many faster machines. He passed ...
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