IBM Advanced Computer Systems project: Difference between revisions

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The ACS project began in 1961 as ''Project Y'' with a goal of “building a machine that was one hundred times faster than [[IBM 7030 Stretch|Stretch]].”<ref name="smotherman">{{cite web | last = Smotherman | first = Mark | title = IBM ACS-1 Supercomputer | date = 2006-05-31 | url = http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html | accessdate = 2007-02-27}}</ref> Initial work began at the [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center|IBM Watson Research Center]]. A number of significant computer pioneers contributed to the project, including [[John Cocke]], [[Herb Schorr]], [[Frances E. Allen|Frances Allen]], [[Gene Amdahl]], and [[Lynn Conway]].

A May 1968 decision by IBM in May 1968 to modify the project to support [[IBM System/360|S/360]] compatibility resulted in the name change from ''ACS-1'' to ''ACS-360'' for the computer being designed. At its peak, the ACS-360 project involved over 200 engineers and staff.<ref name="smotherman"/>.

The ACS-360 project was canceled in May 1969; however, many of the innovations resulting from the project would eventually find direct realization in the [[IBM System p|IBM RS/6000]] series of machines (now the [[IBM System p|IBM System&nbsp;p]] line of workstations and servers), apart from influencing the design of other machines and architectures.

==Influence==