1964-CDC 6600 supercomputer introduced
The Control Data
Corporation (CDC) 6600 performs up to 3 million instructions per second
—three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM 7030
supercomputer. The 6600 retained the distinction of being the fastest
computer in the world until surpassed by its successor, the CDC 7600, in
1968. Part of the speed came from the computer´s design, which used 10
small computers, known as peripheral processing units, to offload the
workload from the central processor.
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