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Actually, 1975. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 "The Cray-1 was the first supercomputer to successfully implement th
by chasil 9y ago
Actually, 1975.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
"The Cray-1 was the first supercomputer to successfully implement the vector processor design. These systems improve the performance of math operations by arranging memory and registers to quickly perform a single operation on a large set of data."
- rbanffy 9y agoI would say the ILLIAC IV would be a better approximation, but the point is the same: massively parallel computers have been with us for a very long time before the first GPU. What nobody anticipated is that we'd be using stuff that was originally designed for games.