A supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray with system architect Jim Thornton at Control Data Corporation, released in September 1964 with first deliveries to Livermore and Los Alamos in 1965. Generally considered the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of about three, and held the title of world's fastest computer until Cray's own follow-on machine, the CDC 7600, took over in 1969. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceGenerally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, and the machine that established Seymour Cray's reputation before he later founded Cray Research and built the Cray-1. 1 FAQs
How much faster was the CDC 6600 than earlier supercomputers?
About three times faster than STRETCH.
The CDC 6600 from Control Data Corporation was first delivered in 1964. It is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, and the FOLDOC computing dictionary describes it as about three times faster than STRETCH. Its successor was the CDC 7600.
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CDC Cyber, Systems CDC Cyber systems used ones-complement binary arithmetic like their predecessor, the CDC 6600.
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outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three
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CDC 6600 is the flagship of the discontinued 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
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When it was finally ready to run its first real application in 1976, it was outperformed by existing commercial supercomputers such as the Cray-1.
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