Tuesday, September 19, 2006

How Modern Computing All Began

Supercomputers can handle absolutely enormous processing tasks these days and some will be approaching 1 PFLOPS (1 Peta Floating Point Operations). After a little research I found IBM?s Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) to be considered the first supercomputer. Taking a look back to the beginning of modern computing...

You can read more about it here.

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