BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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IBM
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Samsung
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Lenovo
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Detailed explanation-1: -FUN FACT: The Ford Motor Company purchased five Cray SV1 supercomputers, making it the system’s top customer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Supercomputer designer Seymour Cray in front of his Cray-1 computer. The Cray-1 was the fastest computer in the world for the next five years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Transaction Details Cray is another example of HPE successfully accelerating its strategy and enhancing its competitive position through acquisitions. Bringing together HPE and Cray enables an enhanced financial profile for the combined company.
Detailed explanation-4: -development by Cray Research Inc. His company’s first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which came out in 1976, could perform 240 million calculations per second. It was used for large-scale scientific applications, such as simulating complex physical phenomena, and was sold to government and university laboratories.