Key moments in NCAR supercomputing
From punch cards to petascale processing
Oct 8, 2012 - by Staff
Oct 8, 2012 - by Staff
October 5, 2012
State-of-the-art computing and |
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Memory
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Processors
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Years in
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1963First supercomputer
CDC 3600 (Control Data) |
0.000001 | 0.000000032 | 1 | 2.5 |
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1977First vector-based system
C1 (CRAY-1A, Cray Computer) |
0.000160 | 0.000008 | 1 | 12 |
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1988First parallel processing system
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0.00717 | 0.001 | 8,192 | 4.5 |
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1999Transition to clustered
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1.96 | 0.7 | 1,308 | 5.5 |
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2008Supercharged
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77 | 12.2 | 4,096 | 4.5 |
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2012The next great leap Yellowstone (iDataPlex, IBM) |
1,600 | 149.2 | 74,592 | new |
NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Lab provides a detailed timeline of our supercomputers.