IBM's Single-Processor Supercomputer Efforts.

The article presents an overview of supercomputer research conducted at IBM (International Business Machines) during the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on the Stretch and ACS (Advanced Computer Systems) projects, which are relatively little-known episodes in the history of computer science. The Stretch...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 12; pp. 28 - 31
Autores principales: Smotherman, Mark, Spicer, Dag
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2010
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