Developer Seymour Cray Type Supercomputer | Product family CDC 6000 series Release date 1967 (1967) | |
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Manufacturer Control Data Corporation Introductory price $8 million ~ equivalent to $61,776,824 in 2016 | ||
The CDC 6500 is the third supercomputer in the 6000 series manufactured by the Control Data Corporation and designed by supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray. The first 6500 was announced in 1964 and was delivered in 1967. It is considered to be part of the first generation of supercomputers.
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The 6500 features a dual CPU 6400. It is a large-scale, solid state, general purpose digital computing system. The 6500 features at least eleven different independent computers. ten of which are peripheral and control processors. Each of the independent computers have a separate memory and can run programs separately from each other and the central processor. Instead of being air-cooled, it has a liquid refrigeration system and each of the three bays of the computer has its own cooling unit.