Cdc Star- 100, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The STAR-100 was a supercomputer from Control Data Corporation (CDC), one of the first machines to use a vector processor for improved math performance. The name STAR was a construct of the words STrings and ARrays. The 100 came from 100 million floating point operations per second (MFLOPS), the speed at which the machine was designed to operate. The computer was announced very early during the 1970s and was supposed to be several times faster than the then reigning world's fastest supercomputer, the CDC 7600, which performed at 36 MIPS. On August 17, 1971, Control Data announced that General Motors had placed the first commercial order for a STAR-100.