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CDC 6600: History, Measurement & Companies
The CDC 6600 is the flagship of the discontinued 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation. Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three. With performance of up to three megaFLOPS, the CDC 6600 was the…
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CDC 6600 topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Measurement and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around CDC 6600.
Related topics
89
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
96
Extracted relationships
75
Concept neighborhoods
31
Bridge connections
96
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Instruction-set architecture of CP · 27 topics
History and impact · 17 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Operating system and programming · 13 topics
Description · 9 topics
Peripheral processors · 6 topics
CDC 7600 · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
CPU
60-bit processor @ 10 MHz
Designer
Seymour Cray
Dimensions
Height : 2,000 mm (79 in) Cabinet width: 810 mm (32 in) Cabinet length : 1,710 mm (67 in) Width overall : 4,190 mm (165 in)
Manufacturer
Control Data Corporation
Memory
Up to 982 kilobytes (131000 x 60 bits)
MIPS
2 MIPS
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How CDC 6600 connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around CDC 6600 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, CDC 6600 → Bill Bhend, CDC, CDC STAR-100, Charles Babbage Institute, Chuck Hawley, Computer History Museum, Control Data, Control Data Corporation, Curt Alexander, Dave Resnick, DEC, Dennis Grinna, Discussion, Dolan Toth, Don Pagelkopf, Engineers, Five Year Reign, Gordon Bell, Howard Krohn, James ThorntonPresentation Another extracted example is CDC 6600 → CDC, CP, CPU, CPUs, Cray, For, Further, I/O, Instead, KiB, PPs, The PPs, These, This, Typical. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
CDC 6600
Top relations
related to External links· 37
CDC 6600 → Bill Bhend, CDC, CDC STAR-100, Charles Babbage Institute, Chuck Hawley, Computer History Museum, Control Data, Control Data Corporation, Curt Alexander, Dave Resnick, DEC, Dennis Grinna, Discussion, Dolan Toth, Don Pagelkopf, Engineers, Five Year Reign, Gordon Bell, Howard Krohn, James ThorntonPresentation
related to Description· 15
CDC 6600 → CDC, CP, CPU, CPUs, Cray, For, Further, I/O, Instead, KiB, PPs, The PPs, These, This, Typical
related to Models· 8
CDC 6600 → As, CDC, CPU, CPUs, For, Indeed, The, The CDC
CPU· 1
CDC 6600 → 60-bit processor @ 10 MHz
Designer· 1
CDC 6600 → Seymour Cray
Dimensions· 1
CDC 6600 → Height : 2,000 mm (79 in) Cabinet width: 810 mm (32 in) Cabinet length : 1,710 mm (67 in) Width overall : 4,190 mm (165 in)
Manufacturer· 1
CDC 6600 → Control Data Corporation
Memory· 1
CDC 6600 → Up to 982 kilobytes (131000 x 60 bits)
MIPS· 1
CDC 6600 → 2 MIPS
Operating system· 1
CDC 6600 → SCOPE, KRONOS
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 75 structured relationships around CDC 6600. Examples in this analysis include CDC 6600 → CPU → 60-bit processor @ 10 MHz and CDC 6600 → Designer → Seymour Cray. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
CDC 6600
CPU
60-bit processor @ 10 MHz
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Designer
Seymour Cray
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Dimensions
Height : 2,000 mm (79 in) Cabinet width: 810 mm (32 in) Cabinet length : 1,710 mm (67 in) Width overall : 4,190 mm (165 in)
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Manufacturer
Control Data Corporation
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Memory
Up to 982 kilobytes (131000 x 60 bits)
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
MIPS
2 MIPS
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Operating system
SCOPE, KRONOS
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Power
30 kW @ 208 V 400 Hz
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Predecessor
CDC 1604
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Price
US$2,370,000 (equivalent to $24,600,000 in 2025)
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Release date
September 1964
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Successor
CDC 7600
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Units sold
100+
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
Weight
about 12,000 lb (6.0 short tons; 5.4 t)
1.00
infobox
CDC 6600
is a
flagship of the discontinued 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation
0.90
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around CDC 6600 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Machines, Used and Cray. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
CDC 6600
Machines
Used
Cray
Processors
Cpu
Central
Cp
Data
System
Peripheral
Scope
Control
cdc 6600
Machines
Used
Cray
Processors
Cpu
Central
Cp
Data
System
Peripheral
Scope
Control
control data corporation
Data
Design
Memory
Pps
Machines
First
Peripheral
Cpu
Scope
Cray
System
Pp
cdc 7600
Machines
Used
Cray
Processors
Cpu
Central
Cp
Data
System
Peripheral
Scope
Control
memory address
Central
Program
Words
Processor
Address
Memory
Register
Main
Cpu
Data
System
Pp
seymour cray
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Design
Set
Processors
Cpu
Machine
Pps
Data
Time
Machines
Would
System
cdc 1604
Machines
Used
Cray
Processors
Cpu
Central
Cp
Data
System
Peripheral
Scope
Control
cdc 3600
Machines
Used
Cray
Processors
Cpu
Central
Cp
Data
System
Peripheral
Scope
Control
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For CDC 6600, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects CDC 6600 with Instruction-set architecture of CP. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
CDC 6600
Nodes97
Edges96
Triples75
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020619
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around CDC 6600 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Measurement & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
