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Download Solution PDFWho among the following is called the 'father of supercomputing'?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is option 2, i.e. Seymour Cray
Additional Information
- The notion of a supercomputer first arose in the 1960s when an electrical engineer named Seymour Cray, embarked on creating the world’s first fastest computer.
- Seymour Cray is widely known as the father of supercomputing.
- Seymour’s passion for building scientific computers led him to help start Control Data Corporation (CDC) in 1957.
- There he realized his goal of building the fastest scientific computer ever, the CDC 1604.
- It was the first fully transistorized commercial computer — he had eliminated vacuum tubes.
- Release of the CDC 6600, which was considered the world’s first actual supercomputer, followed in 1963.
- The CDC 6600 was capable of 9 megaflops (million floating-point operations per second) of processing power and was cooled by Freon. The CDC 7600 was next.
- Running at 40 megaflops, it, in turn, became the world’s first fastest supercomputer.
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