Creating a calculating machine: Original computers -- Analytical engines and census weavers -- Automating the office -- Artillery tables and code breakers -- First "thinking machines" -- Smaller is bigger -- Transition to supercomputers: Seymour Cray's refrigerated computers -- Raising the standards -- Putting the "super" in supercomputers -- Business of supercomputers -- Putting supercomputers to work: Supercomputer centers -- Supercomputers and science -- Supercomputers and industrial design -- New tools for the entertainment industry -- Supercomputing across the internet -- Supercomputers in the twenty-first century: Obstacles in the path of supercomputer growth -- Three areas for advancement -- Optical and quantum computing -- Supercomputers on the desktop? -- Glossary -- Further reading -- World wide web sites -- Index.
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Discusses the history, technology, and importance of supercomputers, and includes examples of their use, describing advances for the twenty-first century.