Frostburg, Maryland

Frostburg is a city in Allegany County, Maryland, United States and is located at the head of the Georges Creek Valley. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,002 at the 2010 census. Located 8 miles (13 km) west of Cumberland, the town is one of the first cities on the "National Road", US 40, and the western terminus of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Since 1991, the city has been served by Interstate 68.

The City of Frostburg has an approximate year-round population of 8,075. In addition, 5,400 students attend Frostburg State University, a public university within the University System of Maryland.

Frostburg was originally called Mount Pleasant until 1820, when the government developed a postal service, and the town was renamed Frostburg.

Geography

Frostburg is located at 39°39′17″N 78°55′40″W / 39.654687°N 78.927773°W / 39.654687; -78.927773 (39.654687, −78.927773).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.42 square miles (8.86 km²), all of it land.

FROSTBURG

FROSTBURG was a Connection Machine 5 (CM-5) supercomputer used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to perform higher-level mathematical calculations. The CM-5 was built by the Thinking Machines Corporation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a cost of US$25 million. The system was installed at NSA in 1991, and operated until 1997. It was the first massively parallel processing computer bought by NSA, originally containing 256 processing nodes. The system was upgraded in 1993 with an additional 256 nodes, for a total of 512 nodes. The system had a total of 500 billion 32-bit words (~2 terabytes) of storage, 2.5 billion words (~10 gigabytes) of memory, and could perform at a theoretical maximum 65.5 gigaflops. The operating system CMost was based on UNIX, but optimized for parallel processing.

FROSTBURG is now on display at the National Cryptologic Museum.

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