UNIVAC LARC

UNIVAC LARC Photo by Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

The UNIVAC LARC ( Livermore Advanced Research Computer ) was a first attempt to build a supercomputer in 1960 . The LARC had two CPUs . A total of two machines were built, one for the US Navy and one for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . In 1960 the LARC with 500 kFLOPS was one of the fastest machines of that time.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used the machine to solve differential equations. A special feature of this machine was that the periphery (input / output) was completely independent of the main computer. One CPU each for the arithmetic calculations and one CPU for the input / output system.

See also

• Universal Automatic Calculator (UNIVAC)

Web links

• Department of the Army, Ballistic Research Laboratories - Maryland, A third survey of domestic electronic digital computing systems, Report No 1115, 1961