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  • >10 times the speed of fastest conventional computer available at the time
  • >10 times the memory capacity of conventional computers available at the time
  • only floating point arithmetic
  • traditionally used ECL for fastest speed, but this dissipated lots of heat
  • in the late 1970s and later multiprocessors
  • in the late 1990s massively parallel supercomputers using many thousands of COTS microprocessors superseded earlier supercomputers using custom designed and built CPUs using individual logic gates
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