ILLIAC IV

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.

Further reading

• R. Michael Hord, The Illiac IV: The First Supercomputer, Computer Science Press, Rockville, 1982

External links

• ILLIAC IV - documentation at Bitsavers