In the 1970s, the first commercial supercomputers were developed, including the Cray-1, which was built in 1976. The Cray-1 was a vector-processing computer that was designed for scientific and engineering applications, and it had a processing speed of 160 megaflops.
Some notable early supercomputers include:
- CDC 7600 (1969): A vector-processing computer that was designed for scientific and engineering applications, and it had a processing speed of 30 megaflops.
- ILLIAC IV (1971): A supercomputer that was built at the University of Illinois and was designed for scientific and engineering applications, and it had a processing speed of 1 gigaflop (1 billion floating-point operations per second).
- Cray-1 (1976): A vector-processing computer that was designed for scientific and engineering applications, and it had a processing speed of 160 megaflops.