ILLIAC was a series of supercomputers built at a variety of locations, some at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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12 Facts About ILLIAC
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ILLIAC I was built at the University of Illinois based on the same design as the ORDVAC.
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ILLIAC I was built with 2,800 vacuum tubes and weighed about 5 tons.
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Immediately after the 1957 launch of Sputnik, the ILLIAC I was used to calculate an ephemeris of the satellite's orbit, later published in Nature.
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ILLIAC I was decommissioned in 1963 when ILLIAC II became operational.
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ILLIAC II was the first transistorized and pipelined supercomputer built by the University of Illinois.
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ILLIAC II had 8192 words of core memory, backed up by 65,536 words of storage on magnetic drums.
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ILLIAC IV was one of the first attempts at a massively parallel computer.
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ILLIAC IV was designed by Burroughs Corporation and built in quadrants in Great Valley, PA during the years of 1967 through 1972.
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ILLIAC went further and insisted that all research performed on Illiac IV would be published.
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Design of the ILLIAC 6 began in early 2005 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign led by Luddy Harrison.
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