Stories of the Development of Large Scale Scientific Computing

at

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

An Oral and Pictorial History


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Page 1: Interviews of people who were part of the development of computing at LLNL

Page 2: Contributions from some not directly interviewed

Page 3: People we'd like to interview

Page 4: Significant Hardware and Software Work

Page 5: Fun stuff from the Glory Days at LLNL

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Page 6: Other Web Sites That May Be Of Interest

  • Early Computing and Its Impact on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, by Bill Lokke
    This PDF document is written by one who was there while it was all happening, and is from the Livermore Lab Technical Information Division archives.

  • The Magnetic Disk Heritage Center - Dr. Albert S. Hoagland.

  • The Bayview Club - (Former employees of CDC located at the "SVLOPS" facility) - Jitze Couperus

  • Compuseum - The American Computer Museum of Bozeman, MT

  • The CDC 6600 and 7600 Systems - Ed Thelen

  • The Father of ASCII - Bob Bemer

  • A History of Computing Timeline Display at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • A History of Computing at Columbia University

  • Some great stories about Seymour Cray and his CRAY-3 and -4 Computers

  • Norm Hardy, a correspondent and interviewee of this project, states, "The document at
    http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/faq.pdf
    is the most complete list of historic IBM hardware by far that I have ever seen."

  • Profile, Biography, and Interview with Edward Teller.
    It's important to remember that while Dr. Teller is rightly known as "the Father of the (American) Hydrogen Bomb," he is also the original instigator of the use of high performance computing as an element of National Security Scientific Research and Development, and the founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

  • History of Computing Information - Mike Muuss