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ILLIAC and II
* ILLIAC II
ILLIAC I was retired in 1962, when the ILLIAC II became operational.
* ILLIAC II
* ILLIAC II
ILLIAC II Control Panel in 2006 ( Courtesy Donald B. Gillies Family )
The ILLIAC II was a revolutionary super-computer built by the University of Illinois that became operational in 1962.
ILLIAC II had 8192 words of core memory, backed up by 65, 536 words of storage on magnetic drums.
* The ILLIAC II was one of the first transistorized computers.
Like the IBM Stretch computer, ILLIAC II was designed using " future transistors " that had not yet been invented.
* The ILLIAC II project was proposed before, and competed with IBM's Stretch project, and several ILLIAC designers felt that Stretch borrowed many of its ideas from ILLIAC II, whose design and documentation were published openly as University of Illinois Tech Reports.
* The ILLIAC II had a division unit designed by faculty member James E. Robertson, a co-inventor of the SRT Division algorithm.
* The ILLIAC II was one of the first pipelined computers, along with IBM's Stretch Computer.
* The ILLIAC II was the first computer to incorporate Speed-Independent Circuitry, invented by faculty member David E. Muller.
During check-out of the ILLIAC II, before it became fully operational, faculty member Donald B. Gillies programmed ILLIAC II to search for mersenne prime numbers.
The ILLIAC II computer was disassembled roughly a decade after its construction.
ILLIAC and 2006
The Trusted ILLIAC was completed in 2006 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Coordinated Science Laboratory and Information Trust Institute.
ILLIAC and Donald
J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
* 1957, Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, Physicist, James E. Snyder and Astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within 2 days of its launch.
* 1960, The first version of the PLATO computer-based education system was implemented on the ILLIAC I by a team led by Donald Bitzer.
Donald W. Gillies, the son of Donald B. Gillies, has a complete set of documentation ( instruction set, design reports, research reports, and grant progress reports, roughly 2000 pages ) from the ILLIAC II project.
In 1963 Donald B. Gillies ( who designed the control ) used the ILLIAC II to find three Mersenne primes, with 2917, 2993, and 3376 digits-the largest primes known at the time.
ILLIAC and .
* Burroughs collaborated with University of Illinois on a multiprocessor architecture developing the ILLIAC IV computer in the early 1960s.
Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701.
Another example is CFD, a special variant of Fortran designed specifically for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, running at NASA's Ames Research Center.
* ILLIAC I – First computer to calculate the orbit of Sputnik I.
In 1962, Westinghouse cancelled the project, but the effort was re-started at the University of Illinois as the ILLIAC IV.
Nevertheless it showed that the basic concept was sound, and, when used on data-intensive applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, the " failed " ILLIAC was the fastest machine in the world.
The ILLIAC approach of using separate ALUs for each data element is not common to later designs, and is often referred to under a separate category, massively parallel computing.
Some compilers in this category provide special constructs or extensions to allow programmers to directly specify operations to be performed in parallel ( e. g., DO FOR ALL statements in the version of FORTRAN used on the ILLIAC IV, which was a SIMD multiprocessing supercomputer ).
When ASC machines first became available in the early 1970s they outperformed almost all other machines, including the CDC STAR-100, and under certain conditions matched that of the infamous one-off ILLIAC IV.
Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other.
The later SILLIAC computer was a copy of the ORDVAC / ILLIAC series.
Memory drum of ILLIAC I, on display at the Spurlock Museum.
The ILLIAC I ( Illinois Automatic Computer ), a pioneering computer built in 1952 by the University of Illinois, was the first computer built and owned entirely by a US educational institution, Manchester University UK having built Manchester Mark 1 in 1948.
ILLIAC I was based on the Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS ) Von Neumann architecture as described by mathematician John von Neumann in his influential First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.
Unlike most computers of its era, the ILLIAC I and ORDVAC computers were twin copies of the same design, with software compatibility.
ILLIAC and Gillies
Gillies and Dr Jim Snyder programmed the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the satellite orbit from this data in under two days.
Starting in 1958, Gillies designed the 3-stage pipeline control of the ILLIAC II supercomputer at the University of Illinois.
During check-out of the ILLIAC II computer, Gillies found 3 new Mersenne primes, and published them in a paper, " Three new Mersenne primes and a statistical theory.
II and Modules
* Modules on Kristeva II: on the abject
Retrieved on 10 / 30 / 06 from Modules on Butler II: Performativity.
However, by Modules I and II in 1966, Brown more often used stemless note heads which could be interpreted with even greater flexibility.
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