UNIVAC LARC

The UNIVAC LARC ( Livermore Advanced Research Computer ) was a first attempt in 1960 to build a supercomputer. The LARC had two CPUs. A total of two machines were built, one for the U.S. Navy and one for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 1960 was one of the LARC 500 kFLOPS the fastest machines this time.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory put the machine for solving differential equations. A special feature of this machine was that the O ( Input / Output) was completely independent of the host computer. Each a CPU for arithmetic calculations and a CPU for input / output system.