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The Cray-1 supercomputer features a cylindrical core with vertical orange and red panels, surrounded by a padded black bench, set in a tiled computer room. CM-2 supercomputer World chess champion Garry Kasparov competes against IBM's Deep Blue chess computer during their 1997 rematch in New York.
See researchers simulate the 3-D motion of the human rhinovirus using IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer to understand how the virus works
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See researchers simulate the 3-D motion of the human rhinovirus using IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer to understand how the virus works
See a 3-D simulation of the motion of the human rhinovirus, the virus that causes...
Video: © University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Cray-1
Approximately 6 feet high and 7 feet in diameter (1.8 × 2.1 meters), the Cray-1 supercomputer...
© Charles O'Rear—Corbis/Getty Images
CM-2 supercomputer
Thinking Machines Corporation's CM-2 supercomputer, 1987. The black, cubic computer...
© 1987 Thinking Machines Corporation, photo by Steve Grohe
Garry Kasparov playing IBM's Deep Blue
World chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue in their 1997 rematch,...
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CDC 6600
The CDC 6600, a supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray.
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