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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. ETA Systems | ETA Systems, Supercomputer, Control Data Corporation, ETA10, Seymour Cray, CDC 8600 | Timoteus Elmo | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786134952545 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ETA Systems was asupercomputer company spun off from Control Data Corporation in theearly 1980s in order to regain a footing in the supercomputer business.They successfully delivered an excellent machine, the ETA-10, but lostmoney continually while doing so. CDC management eventually gave up andfolded the company. Seymour Cray left CDC in the early 1970s when theyrefused to continue funding of his CDC 8600 project. Instead theycontinued with the CDC STAR-100 while Cray went off to build the Cray-1.Cray's machine was much faster than the STAR, and soon CDC found itselfpushed out of the supercomputing market. William Norris was convincedthe only way to regain a foothold would be to spin off a division thatwould be free from management prodding. In order to regain some of thesmall-team flexibility that seemed essential to progress in the fieldETA was created in 1983 with the mandate to build a 10GFLOPS machine by1986.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ETA Systems was a supercomputer company spun off from Control Data Corporation in the early 1980s in order to regain a footing in the supercomputer business. They successfully delivered an excellent machine, the ETA-10, but lost money continually while doing so. CDC management eventually gave up and folded the company. Seymour Cray left CDC in the early 1970s when they refused to continue funding of his CDC 8600 project. Instead they continued with the CDC STAR-100 while Cray went off to build the Cray-1. Cray's machine was much faster than the STAR, and soon CDC found itself pushed out of the supercomputing market. William Norris was convinced the only way to regain a foothold would be to spin off a division that would be free from management prodding. In order to regain some of the small-team flexibility that seemed essential to progress in the field, ETA was created in 1983 with the mandate to build a 10GFLOPS machine by 1986VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 144 pp. Englisch.…