CDC 6600 (1964)
Realizes: gigaflop frontier scientific floating-point workloads
The CDC 6600 (1964) paired scoreboard-driven pipelines with dedicated peripheral processors to keep its transistorized core aimed at float-heavy scientific targets, chasing gigaflop-frontier workloads while isolating I/O on a peripheral backplane.
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CDC 6600 at NASA Ames
NASA Ames Research Center showcased the CDC 6600 supercomputer, highlighting its scoreboard pipelines and peripheral processors from the 1960s.
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