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A History of Supercomputers
Diagram of a 4×4 plane of magnetic core memory ... and its first attempt at a supercomputer, the 7030, in 1961. The 7030 (lovingly nicknamed "St. Retch" by the Illiac II team, in a fit of ...
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The New World's Fastest Supercomputer Will Help Design Future Nuclear Weapons
Credit: LLNL The El Capitan supercomputer has officially become the fastest computer ever made, after scoring 1,742 PetaFLOPS on the High-Performance Linkpack benchmark. That puts it 400 PetaFLOPS ...