CDC STAR 100

CDC Star 100 and TI ASC, announced in 1972, were the first vector computers, but did not have a great commercial success. Their scalar units were quite slow not only compared to vector units but even compared to other scalar computers. Furthermore they had a high start-up time and their vector registers were hundred or thousand elements long. CDC Star 100 was a memory-memory vector machine.
Vector machines such as the CDC STAR 100 provided scatter gather capabilities in hardware into the processor.

CDC Cyber 205

CDC Cyber 205, , designed by Neil Lincoln, was first delivered in 1982. Also this vector machine had a memory-memory architecture; for this reason the speed was very poor for non-unit stride loops.

ETA10

In 1983 CDC started the subsidiary `ETA Systems Inc'. ETA10 was first delivered in 1987 with 8 processors. This machine was CMOS based and worked at low temperatures. Its peak performance was very high for vector computations, but the scalar unit performance was rather low. In 1989 CDC closed `ETA Systems Inc' and left the supercomputing business.

Edited by: Paolo Ramieri
Last modified: March 28, 2002