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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.
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* ILLIAC I – First computer to calculate the orbit of Sputnik I.
The Cyclone at Iowa State University was a direct clone of JOHNNIAC, and was instruction compatible with it ( the ILLIAC I may have been as well ).
* ILLIAC I ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other.
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.
Memory drum of ILLIAC I, on display at the Spurlock Museum.
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 I was very powerful for its time ; in 1956 it had more computing power than all of Bell Labs.
ILLIAC I was retired in 1962, when the ILLIAC II became operational.
* 1955, Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson, used ILLIAC I to compose the Illiac Suite which was one of the first pieces of music to be written with the aid of a computer.
* 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.
* ILLIAC I history including computer music.
* ILLIAC I documentation at bitsavers. org
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The concept, proposed in 1958, pioneered Emitter-coupled logic ( ECL ) circuitry, pipelining, and transistor memory with a design goal of 100x speedup compared to ILLIAC I.
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* Burroughs collaborated with University of Illinois on a multiprocessor architecture developing the ILLIAC IV computer in the early 1960s.
HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant ( the University of Illinois ' Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built ).
In 1962, Westinghouse cancelled the project, but the effort was re-started at the University of Illinois as the ILLIAC IV.
One of a series of research machines, the ILLIACs from the University of Illinois, the ILLIAC IV design featured fairly high parallelism with up to 256 processors, used to allow the machine to work on large data sets in what would later be known as vector processing.
The ILLIAC II was a revolutionary super-computer built by the University of Illinois that became operational in 1962.
* 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 III was a fine-grained SIMD pattern recognition computer built by the University of Illinois in 1966.
The SILLIAC ( Sydney version of the Illinois Automatic Computer, i. e. the Sydney ILLIAC ), an early computer built by the University of Sydney, Australia, was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois, which in turn were based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann.
A suitable computer ( ILLIAC ) already existed at the University of Illinois and Blatt and Messel chose to copy it, rather than design a computer from scratch.
Golub discusses the construction of the ILLIAC computer, the work of Ralph Meager and David Wheeler on the ILLIAC design, British computer science, programming, and the early users of the ILLIAC at the University of Illinois.
ILLIAC was a series of supercomputers built at a variety of locations, some at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The ILLIAC IV control unit and one processing element chassis is now at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
* The ILLIAC IV System 307 – From Computer Structures Principles and Examples ( C. Gordon Bell et al.
* The ILLIAC II was one of the first pipelined computers, along with IBM's Stretch Computer.
In the 1960s, he initiated and directed the ILLIAC III Image Processing Computer project and developed the first imaging of blood flow and macular degeneracy in the human retina.
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Wheeler discusses the EDSAC project, the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701 computers, as well as visits to Cambridge by Douglas Hartree, Nelson Blackman ( of ONR ), Peter Naur, Aad van Wijngarden, Arthur van der Poel, Friedrich Bauer, and Louis Couffignal.
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* Detailed description of two paper tape code systems, Baudot code and the system used by the ILLIAC computer
The later SILLIAC computer was a copy of the ORDVAC / ILLIAC series.
Visiting scholars from Japan assisted in the design of the ILLIAC series of computers, and later developed the MUSASINO-1 computer in Japan.
In 1964 the University signed a contract with DARPA to fund the effort, which became known as ILLIAC IV, since it was the fourth computer designed and created at the University.
Like the IBM Stretch computer, ILLIAC II was designed using " future transistors " that had not yet been invented.
* The ILLIAC II was the first computer to incorporate Speed-Independent Circuitry, invented by faculty member David E. Muller.
The ILLIAC II computer was disassembled roughly a decade after its construction.
Sutherland headed the IPTO in the mid-1960s and oversaw computer projects in graphics and networking, the ILLIAC IV, and the Macromodule program.
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