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A History of Supercomputers

What do fusion research, weather forecasting, epidemiology, and population dynamics have in common? They're all fields of ...
Starting in the late 1950s and lasting for several decades, the most common form of computing was based on mainframe computers. The first major blow to the dominance of mainframes came from the broad ...
IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against. Quantum computers have sparked excitement for a few decades, but researchers ...
"This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950 mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s ...
The company is sticking to an established market with its new servers, even though more companies these days are coming out with machines that act as alternatives to mainframes. Stephen Shankland ...