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The Illiac IV was the first large scale array computer. As the forerunner of today’s advanced computers, it brought whole classes of scientific computations into the realm of practicality. Conceived initially as a grand experiment in computer science, the revolutionary architecture incorporated both a high level of parallelism and pipelining.
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Hord, R.M. (1982). Introduction. In: The Illiac IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10345-6_1
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