NASA's computer that made calculations for space exploration. What was it called?
What was the computer that made calculations for space exploration called?
Not sure you are looking for Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)? See links below:
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Apollo-11-The-computers-that-put-man-on-the-moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
In addition to those mentioned by Dr. Han Ping Fung, there are also some other Web pages relevant to this question:
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html
http://www.zdnet.com/article/space-exploration-the-computers-that-power-mans-conquest-of-the-stars/
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1965/5066/00/50662033.pdf
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/space/space_chronology.html
In 1958, the NASA computer was stereotypical named "UNIVAC. The computing power provide valuable growth in power, diversity, and effectiveness of the applications of computers
Check the NASA Advanced Super-Computing Division
Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions. This distributed-memory SGI ICE cluster is connected with InfiniBand® in a dual-plane hypercube technology.
The system contains the following types of Intel Xeon processors: E5-2680v4 (Broadwell), E5-2680v3 (Haswell), E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge), and E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge). Pleiades is named after the astronomical open star cluster of the same name.
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html
https://www.nas.nasa.gov
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