IBM-ACS: Reminiscences and Lessons Learned from a 1960’s Supercomputer Project

This paper contains reminiscences of my work as a young engineer at IBM-Advanced Computing Systems. I met my colleague Brian Randell during a particularly exciting time there – a time that shaped our later careers in very interesting ways. This paper reflects on those long-ago experiences and the ma...

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Published inDependable and Historic Computing pp. 185 - 224
Main Author Conway, Lynn
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Advanced Computing Systems
computer architecture
design process design
IBM
instruction level parallelism
multilevel simulation
multiple out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling
project dynamics
supercomputer
superscalar
system design
VLSI design
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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ISBN9783642245404
3642245404
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1_15

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Abstract This paper contains reminiscences of my work as a young engineer at IBM-Advanced Computing Systems. I met my colleague Brian Randell during a particularly exciting time there – a time that shaped our later careers in very interesting ways. This paper reflects on those long-ago experiences and the many lessons learned back then. I’m hoping that other ACS veterans will share their memories with us too, and that together we can build ever-clearer images of those heady days.
AbstractList This paper contains reminiscences of my work as a young engineer at IBM-Advanced Computing Systems. I met my colleague Brian Randell during a particularly exciting time there – a time that shaped our later careers in very interesting ways. This paper reflects on those long-ago experiences and the many lessons learned back then. I’m hoping that other ACS veterans will share their memories with us too, and that together we can build ever-clearer images of those heady days.
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computer architecture
design process design
IBM
instruction level parallelism
multilevel simulation
multiple out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling
project dynamics
supercomputer
superscalar
system design
VLSI design
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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