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    Question

    What was the first successful

    supercomputer?
    A Summit Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Frontera Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C CDC 6600 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Tianhe-2A Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Sierra Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The CDC 6600, designed by Seymour Cray, is recognized as the first successful supercomputer. Introduced in the 1960s, it could perform calculations at approximately 1 megaflop (1 million floating-point operations per second), making it three times faster than IBM’s fastest computer at the time.

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