ETA10, the Glossary
The ETA10 is a vector supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by ETA Systems, a spin-off division of Control Data Corporation (CDC).[1]
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66 relations: Ames Research Center, Batch processing, Benchmark (computing), Bipolar junction transistor, Built-in self-test, CDC 6600, CDC 8600, CDC Cyber, CDC STAR-100, Central processing unit, CMOS, Command-line interface, Computer History Museum, Computer science, Control Data Corporation, Cray, Cray Time Sharing System, Cray X-MP, Cray-1, Cybil (programming language), Deutscher Wetterdienst, Electronic design automation, Emitter-coupled logic, ETA Systems, ETA10, FLOPS, Florida State University, Fortran, Gate array, Integrated circuit, John von Neumann Center, Johnson Space Center, JTAG, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LINPACK, Liquid nitrogen, Livermore Time Sharing System, Logic gate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Meiji University, Mentor Graphics, Microcode, Micrometre, Multiprocessing, Netlist, NLTSS, Operating system, Optical fiber, OS 2200, Pascal (programming language), ... Expand index (16 more) »
- Control Data Corporation mainframe computers
- Supercomputer operating systems
- Vector supercomputers
Ames Research Center
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.
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Batch processing
Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically.
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Benchmark (computing)
In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.
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Bipolar junction transistor
A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers.
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Built-in self-test
A built-in self-test (BIST) or built-in test (BIT) is a mechanism that permits a machine to test itself.
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CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
CDC 8600
The CDC 8600 was the last of Seymour Cray's supercomputer designs while he worked for Control Data Corporation. ETA10 and CDC 8600 are control Data Corporation mainframe computers.
CDC Cyber
The CDC Cyber range of mainframe-class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. ETA10 and CDC Cyber are control Data Corporation mainframe computers.
CDC STAR-100
The CDC STAR-100 is a vector supercomputer that was designed, manufactured, and marketed by Control Data Corporation (CDC). ETA10 and CDC STAR-100 are 64-bit computers, control Data Corporation mainframe computers and vector supercomputers.
Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss") is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.
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Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.
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Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
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Control Data Corporation
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.
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Cray
Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Cray Time Sharing System
The Cray Time Sharing System, also known in the Cray user community as CTSS, was developed as an operating system for the Cray-1 or Cray X-MP line of supercomputers in 1978. ETA10 and Cray Time Sharing System are Proprietary operating systems and supercomputer operating systems.
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Cray X-MP
The Cray X-MP was a supercomputer designed, built and sold by Cray Research. ETA10 and Cray X-MP are 64-bit computers and vector supercomputers.
Cray-1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research. ETA10 and Cray-1 are 64-bit computers and vector supercomputers.
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Cybil (programming language)
Cybil (short for the Cyber Implementation Language of the Control Data Network Operating System) was a Pascal-like language developed at Control Data Corporation for the Cyber computer family.
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Deutscher Wetterdienst
The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.
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Electronic design automation
Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards.
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Emitter-coupled logic
In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family.
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ETA Systems
ETA Systems was a supercomputer company spun off from Control Data Corporation (CDC) in the early 1980s in order to regain a footing in the supercomputer business.
ETA10
The ETA10 is a vector supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by ETA Systems, a spin-off division of Control Data Corporation (CDC). ETA10 and ETA10 are 64-bit computers, control Data Corporation mainframe computers, Discontinued operating systems, Proprietary operating systems, supercomputer operating systems and vector supercomputers.
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FLOPS
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.
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Florida State University
Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
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Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Gate array
A gate array is an approach to the design and manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) using a prefabricated chip with components that are later interconnected into logic devices (e.g. NAND gates, flip-flops, etc.) according to custom order by adding metal interconnect layers in the factory.
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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John von Neumann Center
The John von Neumann Center (JVNC) was one of the five pioneering US supercomputer centers created by the National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1985.
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Johnson Space Center
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.
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JTAG
JTAG (named after the Joint Test Action Group which codified it) is an industry standard for verifying designs of and testing printed circuit boards after manufacture.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States.
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LINPACK
LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on digital computers.
Liquid nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) is nitrogen in a liquid state at low temperature.
Livermore Time Sharing System
The Livermore Time Sharing System (LTSS) was a supercomputer operating system originally developed by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories for the Control Data Corporation 6600 and 7600 series of supercomputers in 1965. ETA10 and Livermore Time Sharing System are Discontinued operating systems and supercomputer operating systems.
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Logic gate
A logic gate is a device that performs a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.
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Meiji University
is a private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon.
Microcode
In processor design, microcode serves as an intermediary layer situated between the central processing unit (CPU) hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of a computer, also known as its machine code.
Micrometre
The micrometre (Commonwealth English) as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling (SI standard prefix "micro-".
Multiprocessing
Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.
Netlist
In electronic design, a netlist is a description of the connectivity of an electronic circuit.
NLTSS
The Network Livermore Timesharing System (NLTSS, also sometimes the New Livermore Time Sharing System) is an operating system that was actively developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) from 1979 until about 1988, though it continued to run production applications until 1995. ETA10 and NLTSS are supercomputer operating systems.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.
OS 2200
OS 2200 is the operating system for the Unisys ClearPath Dorado family of mainframe systems.
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit.
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Programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.
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Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (also known as TJHSST, TJ, or Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia operated by Fairfax County Public Schools.
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TI Advanced Scientific Computer
The Advanced Scientific Computer (ASC) is a supercomputer designed and manufactured by Texas Instruments (TI) between 1966 and 1973. ETA10 and TI Advanced Scientific Computer are vector supercomputers.
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Timeline of operating systems
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day.
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Tokyo Institute of Technology
is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan.
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UNIVAC
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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UNIX System V
Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system.
Vector processor
In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently and effectively on large one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors. ETA10 and vector processor are vector supercomputers.
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Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Program
The Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Program was a United States Department of Defense (DOD) research program that ran from 1980 to 1990.
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Virtual memory
In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".
See also
Control Data Corporation mainframe computers
Supercomputer operating systems
- CNK operating system
- Catamount (operating system)
- Chippewa Operating System
- Cray Operating System
- Cray Time Sharing System
- ETA10
- INK (operating system)
- Lightweight kernel operating system
- Livermore Time Sharing System
- Multiple Console Time Sharing System
- NLTSS
- SUNMOS
- SUPER-UX
- Supercomputer operating system
- UNICOS
Vector supercomputers
- CDC STAR-100
- Chaining (vector processing)
- Convex Computer
- Cray C90
- Cray EL90
- Cray J90
- Cray SV1
- Cray T90
- Cray X-MP
- Cray X1
- Cray X2
- Cray XMS
- Cray Y-MP
- Cray-1
- Cray-2
- Cray-3
- Cray-4
- ETA10
- Earth Simulator
- Fujitsu VP
- Fujitsu VP2000
- Gather/scatter (vector addressing)
- HITAC S-3000
- HITAC S-810
- HITAC S-820
- Minisupercomputer
- NEC SX
- NEC SX-6
- NEC SX-8
- NEC SX-9
- NEC SX-ACE
- NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA
- Numerical Wind Tunnel
- Supertek Computers
- TI Advanced Scientific Computer
- Vector processor
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA10
Also known as CDC CYBER 2XX, CYBER 2XX, EOS (Operating System), ETA-10, GF-10, GF10.
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