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	ILLIAC IV Information
		The ILLIAC IV was one of the most infamous supercomputers ever, destined to be the last in a series of research machines from the University of Illinois.
		Key to the ILLIAC IV design was fairly high parallelism with up to 256 processors, used to allow the machine to work on large data sets in what would later be known as vector processing.
		Although the ILLIAC effort ended in uninspiring results, attempts to understand the reasons for the failure of the ILLIAC IV architecture pushed forward research in parallel computing, leading the way for successful massively-parallel machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/ILLIAC_IV (1483 words)

	ILLIAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ILLIAC was the name given to a series of Supercomputers built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		ILLIAC I was the first electronic computer in the United States to be built and owned by the University of Illinois.
		The ILLIAC III was a fine-grained SIMD pattern recognition computer built by the University of Illinois in 1966.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ILLIAC (811 words)

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		Illiac IV was the culmination of a brilliant parallel computation idea, doggedly pursued by Daniel Slotnick for nearly two decades, from its conception when he was graduate student to its realization in the form of a massive supercomputer.
		Until 1970, Illiac IV had been a research and development project, whose controversy was limited to the precise debates of computer scientists, the agonizing of system and hardware designers, and the questioning of budget managers.
		The Illiac IV is the fourth in a series of advanced computers from the University of Illinois; its predecessors include a vacuum tube machine completed in 1952 (11,000 operations per second), a transistor machine completed in 1963 (500,000 operations per second) and a 1966 machine designed for automatic scanning of large quantities of visual data.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/TheCompMusRep/TCMR-V05.html (3058 words)

	ILLIAC I information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The ILLIAC I (Illinois Automatic Computer), a pioneering computer built in 1952 by the University of Illinois, was the first computer built and owned entirely by an educational institution.
		ILLIAC I was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Von Neumann architecture edited by mathematician John von Neumann.
		ILLIAC I was very powerful for its time; in 1956 it had more computing power than all of Bell Labs.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/ILLIAC_I (319 words)

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		Abstract The reasons for the creation of Illiac IV are described and the history of the Illiac IV project is recounted.
		The architecture or hardware structure of the Illiac IV is discussed-the Illiac IV array is an array processor with a specialized control unit (CU) that can be viewed as a small stand-alone computer.
		Applications of Illiac IV are discussed in terms of evaluating the function f(x) simultaneously on up to 64 distinct argument sets x~ Many of the time-consuming problems in scientific computation involve repeated evaluation of the same function on different argument sets.
	research.microsoft.com /users/GBell/Computer_Structures_Principles_and_Examples/csp0322.htm (670 words)

	ILLIAC I
		The ILLIAC I or Illinois Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the University of Illinois, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann.
		As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines).
		The ILLIAC was the first computer at the Univerity of Illinois.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/il/ILLIAC_I.html (98 words)

	Illiac-IV-1960's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Illiac IV (Burroughs and University of Illinois) (1965)
		Illiac IV's Array Processor was perfect for applications which involved matrices and partial differential equations like those found in weather prediction software or functions to find multiple values around a point.
		Illiac IV remained competitive, from a speed point of view until the mid-1980's.
	www.computermuseum.li /Testpage/Illiac-IV-1960's.htm (166 words)

	ILLIAC IV
		The Illiac IV consists of 64 processing elements (PEs) and a single control unit (CU).
		The first large-scale array computer, the ILLIAC IV achieved a computation speed of 200 million instructions per second, about 300 million operations per second, and 1 billion bits per second of I/O transfer via a unique combination of parallel architecture and the overlapping or "pipe-lining" structure of its 64 processing elements.
		Illiac IV was to be the most powerful computer on the face of the earth at that time.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/vs-illiac-iv.html (2355 words)

	Parallel Systems - Architectures: Illiac IV, an Array Processor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Illiac IV was the first Array Processor, and to a large extent set the mold for subsequent Array Processing machines.
		This combination of memory facilities meant that, while the Cray-1 delivered better scalar and short vector performance, and the CYBER 205 was the fastest long vector processor, the ILLIAC IV was faster than any SIMD architecture up until the mid 1980's at problems which required large amounts of data to be processed.
		The number of processors in the delivered ILLIAC IV was one quarter the number origionally proposed, mainly due to cost ($31 million in the late 1960's).
	www.sunderland.ac.uk /~ts0jti/mpp/warp/arch310.htm (521 words)

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		ILLIAC II, which became operational in 1962, was one hundred times faster than ILLIAC I and ten times faster than any other computer in existence at that time.
		ILLIAC IV, designed in 1965, was intended to perform a billion operations per second.
		Illiac IV reigned as the fastest computer in the world until the advent of the so-called supercomputer.
	research.aces.uiuc.edu /old_or/aes/infoag.html (1244 words)

	Department History
		The ILLIAC IV project, headed by Professor Daniel Slotnick, pioneers the new concept of parallel computation.
		ILLIAC IV was a SIMD computer (single instruction, multiple data) and it marked the first use of circuit card design automation outside IBM.
		In addition to writing the operating system for ILLIAC II, he created a groundbreaking method for solving stiff ordinary differential equations on digital computers and wrote a landmark computer program for the automatic integration of ordinary differential equations.
	a.cs.uiuc.edu /about/history.html (1989 words)

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		The Illiac IV would have 256 parallel processors, and would crunch numbers at some exorbitant rate for its day.
		A decade later, I heard that the Illiac IV had never been made to work, and that a stripped-down version with 64 processors was tackling some problems at Nasa's Ames Research Center.
		Of course, learning how to build a massively parallel computer like the Illiac IV, and learning how to program for it was probably of considerable value even though the semiconductor technology of that era didn't permit full success.
	hiqnews.megafoundation.org /2004-6-29-The_Illiac_IVr.htm (199 words)

	ILLIAC IV
		The Illiac IV consists of 64 processing elements (PEs) and a single control unit (CU).
		The first large-scale array computer, the ILLIAC IV achieved a computation speed of 200 million instructions per second, about 300 million operations per second, and 1 billion bits per second of I/O transfer via a unique combination of parallel architecture and the overlapping or "pipe-lining" structure of its 64 processing elements.
		Illiac IV was to be the most powerful computer on the face of the earth at that time.
	www.ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/vs-illiac-iv.html (2355 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
		Examples of this revolution are the duplication of arithmetic units for array processors such as the Illiac IV [1] and the Phoenix [2], and the pipelining of functional units for vector processors such as the Star-100 [3] and the Cray-1 [10].
		The disadvantages of this approach are that the extraction of the parallelism is somewhat limited and inefficient in the code generated; and often the user has to restructure the program to benefit from the parallelism of the machine.
		The design of the language involved an extensive study of the problem areas in which such computers are used, consultations with programmers who had used such machines for many years, and a survey of the users of the Illiac IV over the years that it had been operational.
	hopl.murdoch.edu.au /showlanguage2.prx?exp=839 (3221 words)

	History \| About Us \| Computer Science \| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		The ILLIAC IV project, headed by Professor Daniel Slotnick, pioneers the new concept of parallel computation.
		ILLIAC IV was a SIMD computer (single instruction, multiple data) and it marked the first use of circuit card design automation outside IBM.
		In addition to writing the operating system for ILLIAC II, he created a groundbreaking method for solving stiff ordinary differential equations on digital computers and wrote a landmark computer program for the automatic integration of ordinary differential equations.
	www.cs.uiuc.edu /about/history.php (1888 words)

	2.2.1 Parallel Scientific Computers Before 1980
		The Illiac was a research project, not a commercial product, and it was reputed to be so expensive that it was not realistic for others to replicate it.
		While the Illiac IV did not inspire the masses to become interested in parallel computing, hundreds of people were involved in its use and in projects related to providing better software tools and better programming languages for it.
		The Illiac was an SIMD ; computer-single-instruction, multiple-data architecture.
	www.netlib.org /utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node11.html (733 words)

	Programming The Illiac
		HarryChesley and JimBesemer were assigned to write image processing programs for the Illiac IV.
		There used to be (late '80s) a CPU board from the Illiac IV displayed in a glass case in Loomis Hall at UIUC - the undergraduates taking Physics 106 and 107 had to pass it to get out the door.
		I was recently at an Apple reunion at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and ran across one of the actual Illiac IV processors on display.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?ProgrammingTheIlliac (1428 words)

	Coordinated Science Laboratory
		URBANA, Ill. (May 3, 2006) – The original ILLIAC computer, built by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1952, was the first computer in the world created and owned entirely by an educational institution.
		Back in the days of ILLIAC IV, which was the largest and fastest computer in the world in 1965, the challenge of large-scale computing was performance: creating computers that are faster and ever more powerful.
		Trusted ILLIAC development is also supported by a new National Science Foundation Critical Research Infrastructure (CRI) grant led by Wen-mei Hwu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and ITI’s Theme Leader for Embedded and Enterprise Computing.
	www.csl.uiuc.edu /news/trustworthy1.asp (1279 words)

	ILLIAC IV
		The ILLIAC IV was one of the most infamous supercomputers ever.
		It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams).
		Based on an article in FOLDOC, used with permission.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/il/ILLIAC_IV.html (169 words)

	ILLIAC IV CFD
		In fact the project folded, and Slotnick moved to the University of Illinois and started the ILLIAC IV project with Burroughs, in the latter half of the 60s.
		Amongst its technological innovations, ILLIAC IV was the first large system to employ semiconductor primary memory.
		This language made the architectural features of the ILLIAC IV very apparent to the programmer, but it also contained the seeds of some practical programming language abstractions for data-parallel programming.
	www.hpjava.org /talks/beijing/hpf/introduction/node4.html (1020 words)

	VCF 6.0 in 3D: Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		My personal interest in Illiac IV stems from my involvement with MasPar, makers of a different SIMD machine.
		Overviews of seen of Illiac IV seemed oddly familiar after working through some of the MasPar documentation.
		The massive transformer in what would be the bottom left (or was it right?) desk drawer (if it were a desk) is very, very heavy.
	anachronda.homeunix.com:8000 /~rivie/VCF6.0/Miscellaneous.html (170 words)

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		The ILLIAC IV Project has been split into two projects; one on basic system hardware and software, and the other on applications.
		Thursday afternoon, February 18 Thursday afternoon was open to a presentation by the University of Illinois on the ILLIAC IV and a demonstration of the Plato project.
		The ILLIAC IV hardware is to be up the fall as is the software.
	www.isi.edu /in-notes/rfc101.txt (4003 words)

	Citations: Glypnir---a programming language for the Illiac IV - Lawrie, Layman, Baer, Randal (ResearchIndex)
		for the ILLIAC IV) b) Design of languages similar with older ones with certain extensions to use the parallelism of a specific computer.
		Therefore these extensions are unique for the computer, which were designed for and do not apply to another one.
		A great deal of software was developed for ILLIAC IV [Slotnick, 1971; Feierbach and Stevenson, 1979] Four programming languages were developed for the machine: the ALGOL like TRANQUIL [Abel et al.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/278589/0 (987 words)

	Gcom - SNA, X.25, Bisync, Frame Relay, LAPB, LAPD, HDLC, SDLC protocol solutions \| Why STREAMS?
		In the latter half of the 1960s, the U of I was engaged in the design of a highly parallel computer system called the ILLIAC IV.
		ILLIAC IV was intended to be a resource available on the ARPA Network, similarly to the way that NCSA is a present day supercomputer resource.
		When it was decided that the ILLIAC IV would be installed at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California rather than in Urbana, Illinois, the focus at the U of I turned to network access.
	www.gcom.com /info/why_streams.html (6275 words)

	Illiac IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Illiac IV The Free Online Dictionary of Computing (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/) is edited by Denis Howe .
		Illiac IV computer> One of the most infamous supercomputers ever.
		The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
	burks.bton.ac.uk /burks/foldoc/25/56.htm (142 words)

	hist_c_60s
		The ILLIAC IV was built by the University of Illinois, at the request of the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
		The ILLIAC IV was not operational until 1972 contracted the University of Illinois to build a large-scale array, parallel processing computer.
		This picture shows one of the ILLIAC's 13 Burroughs disks, the debugging computer, the central unit, and the processing unit cabinet with a processing element.
	library.thinkquest.org /18268/History/hist_c_60s.htm?tqskip1=1 (451 words)

	Parallel Systems - Architectures: Programming the Illiac IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Illiac IV was developed by the University of Illinois, and was a hardware-first design.
		A simple example Illiac IV program is shown below.
		This could be done as required by the compiler, or manually by the programmer.
	www.sunderland.ac.uk /~ts0jti/mpp/warp/arch320.htm (294 words)

	Achievements and Innovations \| Engineering at Illinois \| University of Illinois
		Physics alumnus Polykarp Kusch (MS 1933, PhD 1936) shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work toward the precise measurement of the magnetic movement of the electron.
		Physics Professor Ralph E. Meagher and colleagues developed ILLIAC I, the first digital computer entirely built and owned by an educational institution.
		The ILLIAC series later continued with ILLIAC II, a transistorized computer, and culminated in the mid 1960s with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer--at the time the fastest and largest in the world.
	www.engr.uiuc.edu /innovations (1257 words)

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