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How many processors did the first super computer have?

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Depending on whose opinion you take, one of the following computers is considered the first Supercomputer:

  1. IBM NORC - one
  2. UNIVAC LARC - one CPU, one I/O processor (could support two CPPUs but neither machine built had two)
  3. IBM 7030 Stretch - one
  4. CDC 6600 - one CPU, ten Peripheral Processors

All of these machines had only one processor (although the LARC had potential for two). I/O processors and Peripheral Processors were "secondary processors" responsible for handling I/O devices and had only limited arithmetic capability and were slower than the CPU.

At the time these machines were built synchronization and coordination of multiprocessors was not a well developed practice. UNIVAC had experience building multiprocessor systems for the military prior to LARC, so they proposed it as a dual processor - but never built it that way.

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