CDC Cyber
The CDC Cyber range of mainframe-class supercomputers (except for the Cyber 18 and Cyber 1000 minicomputers) were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive computing. They were used for modeling fluid flow, material science stress analysis, electrochemical machining analysis, probabilistic analysis, energy and academic computing, radiation shielding modeling, and other applications.
Models
The Cyber line included five very different models of computer:
The 70 and 170 series based on the architecture of the CDC 6600 and CDC 7600
The 180 series developed by a team in Canada
The 200 series based on the CDC STAR-100
The Cyberplus or Advanced Flexible Processor (AFP)
The Cyber 18 minicomputer based on the CDC 1700
Primarily aimed at large office applications instead of the traditional supercomputer tasks, some of the Cyber machines nevertheless included basic vector instructions for added performance in traditional CDC roles.
