September 8:The ILLIAC IV Supercomputer Is Shut Down

On September 7, 1981, The first large parallel processing computer, ILLIAC IV, ends its nearly decade-long life at the University of Illinois. In 1966, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted the University of Illinois to build the ILLIAC IV, which did not operate until 1972 at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

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