CDC 7600
E1034262
The CDC 7600 was a pioneering supercomputer of the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for being one of the fastest machines of its time and a landmark in high-performance computing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CDC 7600 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13316966 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CDC 7600 Context triple: [Control Data Corporation, notableProduct, CDC 7600]
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A.
CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was a pioneering supercomputer introduced in the 1960s that is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer and held the title of the world’s fastest computer for several years.
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B.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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C.
IBM 704
The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
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D.
IBM 650
The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
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E.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CDC 7600 Target entity description: The CDC 7600 was a pioneering supercomputer of the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for being one of the fastest machines of its time and a landmark in high-performance computing.
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A.
CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was a pioneering supercomputer introduced in the 1960s that is often regarded as the first successful supercomputer and held the title of the world’s fastest computer for several years.
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B.
PDP-9
The PDP-9 was a 1960s 18-bit minicomputer from Digital Equipment Corporation that introduced advanced features and improved performance over its predecessors in the PDP series.
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C.
IBM 704
The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
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D.
IBM 650
The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
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E.
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a 1960s DEC minicomputer whose relatively low cost and flexible design made it popular in research labs and notable as the machine on which the first version of Unix was developed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
supercomputer
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vector supercomputer ⓘ |
| addressWordSize | 18 bits ⓘ |
| announcementDate | 1969 ⓘ |
| architecture |
pipelined architecture
ⓘ
scalar architecture with vector-like pipelining ⓘ |
| clockFrequency | 36.4 MHz ⓘ |
| commercialAvailability | early 1970s ⓘ |
| commercialSuccess | limited but significant in high-end market ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | forced-air cooling ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designer | Seymour Cray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
early 1970s
ⓘ
late 1960s ⓘ |
| family | CDC 6000 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formFactor | C-shaped chassis layout ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
helped establish CDC as a leader in supercomputing
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landmark in high-performance computing ⓘ |
| influenced | Cray-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inputOutputSubsystem | separate peripheral processors (PPs) ⓘ |
| instructionSetCompatibility | CDC 6600 compatible ⓘ |
| logicTechnology |
discrete transistor modules
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high-speed integrated circuits (hybrid modules) ⓘ |
| mainMemoryCapacity | up to 1 megaword ⓘ |
| mainMemoryTechnology | core memory ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Control Data Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketPosition | flagship high-performance system of Control Data Corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced instruction pipelining
ⓘ
being among the fastest computers in the world in the early 1970s ⓘ high clock speed for its era ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
KRONOS
NERFINISHED
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NOS NERFINISHED ⓘ SCOPE ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | around 36 MFLOPS ⓘ |
| pipelineDepth | very deep instruction pipeline for its time ⓘ |
| powerConsumption | very high for its time ⓘ |
| predecessor | CDC 6600 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reliability | considered difficult to maintain and tune ⓘ |
| successor | CDC Cyber 205 (in CDC’s high-performance line) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAt |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NERFINISHED
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Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ National Center for Atmospheric Research NERFINISHED ⓘ various universities and research labs ⓘ |
| usedFor |
nuclear weapons research
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physics simulations ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ weather modeling ⓘ |
| wordSize | 60 bits ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: CDC 7600 Description of subject: The CDC 7600 was a pioneering supercomputer of the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for being one of the fastest machines of its time and a landmark in high-performance computing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.