Editing CDC Cyber (section)

{{Short description|Range of mainframe-class supercomputers}}
{{Split|'''CDC Cyber 200'''|date=November 2021}}
[[Image:PAVE Paws Computer Room.jpg|right|thumb|225px|A CDC Cyber 170 Computer room, 1986]]
[[File:CDC Cyber 70 at UGA.jpg|right|thumb|A CDC Cyber 70/74]]
[[File:CDC Cyber 70 control at UGA.jpg|right|thumb|A CDC Cyber 70/74 console]]

The '''CDC Cyber''' range of [[mainframe computer|mainframe]]-class [[supercomputer]]s 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,<ref>{{Cite journal
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 | url-status = dead
 | archive-date = 2013-04-15
 | title = (search for Cyber terms)
 | journal = IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | accessdate = 2008-07-01
}}</ref> probabilistic analysis,<ref>{{cite journal
 | doi = 10.1016/S0305-0548(96)00056-1
 | title = A new heuristic algorithm for probabilistic optimization
 | author = Rajani R. Joshi
 | journal = Computers & Operations Research
 | publisher = Department of Mathematics and School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Powai, Bombay, India
 | date = 9 June 1998
 | volume = 24
 | issue = 7
 | pages = 687–697
 }}<!--| accessdate = 2008-07-01--> (requires subscription)</ref> energy and academic computing,<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html
 | title = A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University
 | author = Jeff Bauer
 | year = 1991
 | accessdate = 2008-07-01
}}</ref> radiation shielding modeling,<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.nea.fr/abs/html/iaea0837.html
 | title = Abstract for SAMSY – Shielding Analysis Modular System
 | publisher = OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
 | accessdate = 2008-07-01
}}</ref> and other applications. The lineup also included the Cyber 18 and Cyber 1000 [[minicomputer]]s. Like their predecessor, the [[CDC 6600]], they were unusual in using the [[ones' complement]] binary representation.