CDC 6500

CDC 6500

Open panels of the CDC 6500 undergoing restoration at the LCM in Seattle.
Manufacturer Control Data Corporation
Product family CDC 6000 series
Type Supercomputer
Release date 1967 (1967)
Introductory price $8 million ~ equivalent to $61,141,631 in 2015
Operating system SCOPE
CPU Dual 6400 up to 40MHz
Memory 65,000 60-bit words
Weight 10,000+ Lbs.
Detailed image of the CDC 6500 at the LCM.
Detailed image of the CDC 6500 at the LCM.

The CDC 6500 was the third supercomputer in the 6000 series manufactured by the Control Data Corporation and designed by supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray.[1] The first 6500 was announced in 1964 and was delivered in 1967.[2] It is considered to be part of the first generation of supercomputers.[3]

Specifications

The 6500 featured a dual CPU 6400.[4] It was a large-scale, solid state, general purpose digital computing system.[5] The 6500 featured at least eleven different independent computers. ten of which were peripheral and control processors. Each of the independent computers had a separate memory and could run programs separately from each other and the central processor.[5] Instead of having being air-cooled it had a liquid refrigeration system and each of the three bays of the computer had its own cooling unit.[6]

Peripherals

Installations

References

  1. 1 2 "CDC 6500". Living Computer Museum. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. "Control Data Corporation Collection - Historical Timeline". www.cbi.umn.edu. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. Courier, Hayleigh Colombo Journal &. "Museum restoring Purdue's 1st supercomputer". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. "CDC 6500". IT History. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 6400/6500/6600 Computer Systems Reference Manual (PDF). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Control Data Corporation. 1967. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  6. "Museum to Resurrect First-Gen Supercomputer". HPCwire. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  7. "CDC 6500". 60bits.net. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  8. "The 6400 is ugraded to a 6500 | CERN timelines". timeline.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  9. Enterprise, I. D. G. (5 June 1978). "Computerworld". 12 (23). IDG Enterprise. Retrieved 25 July 2016.

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