Remote time-sharing of a centralized 6600
B. B. Clayton, E. K. Dorff, R. E. Fagen, J. D. Johnson · 1965
The Control Data 6600, with its immense capability, lends itself readily to several new application or problem areas in which computers have not previously been fully utilized due to either technical or economic considerations. Foremost among these is the area of extremely large problems. In these problems, the size either prohibited use of existing computers in all generality or in all detail or else could be solved only at the expense of a large amount of computer time. Examples of situations of this type can be found among some nuclear and linear programming problems. In particular, when problems of this type involve real-time inputs or outputs, an extremely large computer is an absolute necessity. Another variation of this problem occurs when a special purpose black box or simulation model has to be constructed to work in conjunction with presently existing computers.