BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Los Angeles National Laboratory
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Bletchley Park
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The CIA
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Detailed explanation-1: -development by Cray Research Inc. It was used for large-scale scientific applications, such as simulating complex physical phenomena, and was sold to government and university laboratories. Further supercomputers followed, each with increased computing speed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Supercomputers were originally used in applications related to national security, including nuclear weapons design and cryptography. Today they are also routinely employed by the aerospace, petroleum, and automotive industries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Seymour Cray unveiled the CRAY-1 in 1976, considered the first supercomputer. Born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Cray was interested in chemistry and radio as a child. After a brief service during World War II, he went to the University of Minnesota where he studied engineering.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Great nations are not built on borrowed technologies”-Vijay P. Bhatkar Dr Vijay P Bhatkar is one of the internationally acknowledged scientist and IT leader of India. He is known as the man behind India’s first supercomputer.