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==Beginnings: 1950s and 1960s==
The term "Super Computing" was first used in the ''[[New York World]]'' in 1929 to refer to large custom-built [[tabulating machine|tabulator]]s that [[IBM]] had made for [[Columbia University]].
In 1957, a group of engineers left [[Sperry Corporation]] to form [[Control Data Corporation]] (CDC) in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota. [[Seymour Cray]] left Sperry a year later to join his colleagues at CDC.<ref name=chen >{{cite book | title = Hardware software co-design of a multimedia SOC platform | first1 = Sao-Jie | last1 = Chen | first2 = Guang-Huei | last2 = Lin | first3 = Pao-Ann | last3 = Hsiung | first4 = Yu-Hen | last4 = Hu | year = 2009 | isbn = 9781402096235 | pages = 70–72 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OXyo3om9ZOkC&pg=PA70 | publisher = [[Springer Science+Business Media]] | access-date = 20 February 2018}}</ref> In 1960, Cray completed the [[CDC 1604]], one of the first generation of commercially successful [[Transistor computer|transistorized]] computers and at the time of its release, the fastest computer in the world.<ref name=Hannan >{{cite book | title = Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary | first = Caryn | last = Hannan | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-1-878592-63-7 | pages = 83–84 | publisher = State History Publications | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V08bjkJeXkAC&pg=PA83 | access-date = 20 February 2018}}</ref> However, the sole fully transistorized [[Harwell CADET]] was operational in 1951, and IBM delivered its commercially successful transistorized [[IBM 7090]] in 1959.
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