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CDC's 6600 Computer Console, 1966.
Courtesy of the Charles Babbage Institute Archives at the University of Minnesota.
The new high-performance grid computer at work - nearing completion and viewed from the back of the old high performance grid.
HDD cages, there are 6 available, i will be using 5. From l to r, OCZ 200GB SSD boot drive, 2 Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA6 main drives and 2 Hitachi 500GB backup drives. i left the open slot between the 2 Barracuda's and the Hitachi's to help with cooling. One of the 180mm fans sits directly below these drives blowing air up and through the HDD's.
"The Cray-1 Supercomputer
Featuring a central column surrounded by a padded, circular seat, the Cray-1 looked like no other computer. And performed like no other computer. It reigned as the world’s fastest from 1976 to 1982."
Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA
Another view of the heat sink which runs across the bridges on the motherboard, loops around the CPU area and heatsinks out the top of the case.
Faculty delegation from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, visting the world's second-fastest computer (for now) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center