Byte Buyer, SDSC article, 1986-10-03

In the October 3, 1986 issue of The Byte Buyer (now known as ComputorEdge), Paul West wrote an article about the new San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Mind boggling calculations of nearly 1 billion per second, 15 to 50 scientists working on a computer at one time ... Welcome to the world of San Diego's Supercomputer, the machine that operates about 1000 times faster than the average office computer. Speed? You'd better believe it. Toss in user accessibility and diversity of research and you've summed up the main attributes of the Cray X-MP 48.

Click on these thumbnail images to see the article, along with some rather amusing ads.

This article is copyright © ComputorEdge (formerly The Byte Buyer Inc.).
My thanks to them for permission to use it here. -- Keith Thompson, kst@sdsc.edu

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