<P> Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s , and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) , Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram . The first such machines were highly tuned conventional designs that ran faster than their more general - purpose contemporaries . Through the 1960s , they began to add increasing amounts of parallelism with one to four processors being typical . From the 1970s , the vector computing concept with specialized math units operating on large arrays of data came to dominate . A notable example is the highly successful Cray - 1 of 1976 . Vector computers remained the dominant design into the 1990s . From then until today , massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of off - the - shelf processors became the norm . </P>
<P> Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s , and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) , Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram . The first such machines were highly tuned conventional designs that ran faster than their more general - purpose contemporaries . Through the 1960s , they began to add increasing amounts of parallelism with one to four processors being typical . From the 1970s , the vector computing concept with specialized math units operating on large arrays of data came to dominate . A notable example is the highly successful Cray - 1 of 1976 . Vector computers remained the dominant design into the 1990s . From then until today , massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of off - the - shelf processors became the norm . </P>
who invented the supercomputer and the year invented
who invented the supercomputer and the year invented
Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation 1960s
Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation 1960s