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Supercomputers are designed not discovered. Discovery implies it already existed before we became aware of it. The first 4 machines commonly identified as possible first supercomputer candidates are:

  1. IBM NORC - 1954 - speed about 15KOPS - Byron L. Havens was engineer in charge of a team of about 100 working on the project - built 1.
  2. UNIVAC LARC - 1960 - speed about 250KOPS - unknown design team, specification written at LLNL - built 2.
  3. IBM Stretch 7030 - 1961 - speed about 1.2MOPS - S. W. Dunwell was executive in charge with R. E. Merwin and E. Bloch responsible for overall engineering direction of a team of hundreds working on the project - built 9.
  4. CDC 6600 - 1964 - speed about 3MOPS - Seymour Cray was head designer of a team of about a dozen - built about 100.
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