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At its introduction, it was listed as the second fastest supercomputer in the world and this single system increased NASA's supercomputing capacity 10-fold. The system was kept at NASA Ames Research Center until 2013, when it was removed to make way for two new supercomputers. Nearly a quarter century after IBM launched their PC in 1981, they had become merely another player in a crowded marketplace. Lenovo, China's largest manufacturer of PCs, purchased IBM's personal computer business in 2005, largely to gain access to IBM's ThinkPad line of computers and sales force. Lenovo became the largest manufacturer of PCs in the world with the acquisition, later also acquiring IBM's server line of computers.

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In mid-2012 the most powerful upercomputer was a Linux-based IBM Sequoia-BlueGene/Q system powered by Power BQC 16-core processors running at 1.6GHz. The system, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and called Jaguar, has a total of 1,572,864 cores and 1,572,864GB of memory, achieves a sustainable speed of 16.32 petaFLOPS, and consumes 7.89MW of power. Today most supercomputers are MIMD machines, and some use GPUs instead of traditional processors. Multicore processors with multiple processing units are now ubiquitous. With larger systems and recognition of the major role of maintenance, the block of program statements was further broken down into modules, which could be developed independently.

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It used 53 vacuum tubes and hundreds of germanium diodes, with a magnetic drum for memory. MADDIDA was flown across the country for a demonstration to John von Neumann, who was impressed. Northrop was initially reluctant to make MADDIDA a commercial product, but by the end of 1952, six had sold. The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator project, led by IBM engineer Wallace Eckert, uses both relays and vacuum tubes to process scientific data at the rate of x 14 digit multiplications per second.

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All three PowerBooks introduced featured a built-in trackball, internal floppy drive, and palm rests, which would eventually become typical of 1990s laptop design. The PowerBook 100 was the entry-level machine, while the PowerBook 140 was more powerful and had a larger memory. The PowerBook 170 was the high-end model, featuring an active matrix display, faster processor, as well as a floating point unit. Called a “complex instruction set computer,” VAX systems were backward compatible and so preserved the investment owners of previous DEC computers had in software. The success of the VAX family of computers transformed DEC into the second-largest computer company in the world, as VAX systems became the de facto standard computing system for industry, the sciences, engineering, and research.

The Z3, an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length. The Z3 was used for aerodynamic calculations but was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943. Zuse later supervised a reconstruction of the Z3 in the 1960s, which is currently on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz. In 1940, Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American Mathematical Society conference held at Dartmouth College.