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The '''ILLIAC IV''' was a ground-breaking, although not directly successful, [[supercomputer]]. It was the first supercomputer to be a [[multi-processor]] - although it was a [[tightly coupled]] [[SIMD]] [[architecture]], not a [[loosely coupled]] [[MIMD]], as most contemporary supercomputers are now. Its name came from the fact that it was the fourth machine built by the Illinois Automatic Computer (ILLIAC) team.

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==Further reading==

* R. Michael Hord, [https://bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/illiac/ILLIAC_IV/Hord_ILLIAC_IV_The_First_Supercomputer_1982.pdf ''The Illiac IV: The First Supercomputer''], Computer Science Press, Rockville, 1982

==External links==

* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/illiac/ILLIAC_IV/ ILLIAC IV] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]

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+The '''ILLIAC IV''' was a ground-breaking, although not directly successful, [[supercomputer]]. It was the first supercomputer to be a [[multi-processor]] - although it was a [[tightly-coupled]] [[SIMD]] [[architecture]], not a [[loosely-coupled]] [[MIMD]], as most contemporary supercomputers are now. Its name came from the fact that it was the fourth machine built by the Illinois Automatic Computer (ILLIAC) team.
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+It was one of the first computers to use all [[semiconductor]] [[main memory]]; the ILLIAC's was produced by [[Fairchild Semiconductor]]. Much of the physical creation of the machine was done by [[Burroughs]], the system contractor.
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