Denver/Pikes Peak IEEE Life Member Affinity Group Second May Virtual Meeting

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Pikes Peak/Denver IEEE Life Member Affinity Group

May Virtual Meeting

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86254508257

Meeting ID: 862 5450 8257

Wednesday, May 20 2 pm MDT/3 pm CDT

We've received a lot of positive feedback from our members with regard to the virtual session we held last month.  Although we miss the socialization and camaraderie of our normal in-person events, this new approach is certainly convenient for us and eliminates issues related to travel. 

The Pikes Peak LMAG has scheduled a second presentation for this month and, once again, has invited our Denver LMAG to join them.  For those of you who have attended one of these virtual presentation, you already know how convenient and straight-forward they are to attend.  If you are among those that have not yet experienced one of these presentations, please consider giving one a try.

In case you missed the first May meeting, it was attended by over 50 Life Members, with representation from across the Colorado Sections as well as members from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

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VHSIC and the ETA-10: The First CMOS and Only Cryogenically Cooled Supercomputer
 
David Bondurant, Retired PE
Pikes Peak Life Member Affinity Group Chair
Region 5 North Area LMAG Coordinator
 
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was the World’s Leading Supercomputer company for 40-years.  Starting as a classified group of Navy code breakers during WWII building tube-type computers, CDC was building the fastest computers by the 1970s in the Twin Cities.
 
By the early 1980s, CDC needed a dramatic leap forward to stay ahead of Cray Research, and several Japanese supercomputer companies.  They created ETA Systems to build a computer 10 times more powerful than any of the day, the ETA-10.
 
During the 1970s, fielded military computer technology was failing to keep pace with rapidly evolving commercial technology.  In 1980, the DoD launched an aggressive technology development called Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) to rapidly develop 1.2 micron and 0.5 micron semiconductor and advanced computer-aided design tools.  Across town from ETA Systems, Honeywell Solid State Electronics was developing leading edge CMOS and packaging technologies under a VHSIC contract.
 
The presentation will describe how Honeywell and ETA Systems worked together to create the ETA-10, The First CMOS and Only Cryogenically Cooled Supercomputer.

 


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  • Date: 20 May 2020
  • Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-07:00) US/Mountain
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  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86254508257
  • Meeting ID: 862 5450 8257
  • Denver, Colorado
  • United States
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  • Co-sponsored by dbondurant@mac.com
  • Starts 13 May 2020 08:08 PM
  • Ends 20 May 2020 08:08 PM
  • All times are (GMT-07:00) US/Mountain
  • No Admission Charge

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Topic:

VHSIC and the ETA-10: The First CMOS and Only Cryogenically Cooled Supercomputer

Control Data Corporation (CDC) was the World’s Leading Supercomputer company for 40-years.  Starting as classified group of Navy code breakers during WWII building tube-type computers, CDC was building the fastest computers by the 1970s in the Twin Cities.
 
By the early 1980s, CDC needed a dramatic leap forward to stay ahead of Cray Research, and several Japanese supercomputer companies.  They creates ETA Systems to build a computer 10 times more powerful than any of the day, the ETA-10.
 
During the 1970s, fielded military computer technology was failing to keep pace with rapidly evolving commercial technology.  In 1980, the DoD launched an aggressive technology development called Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) to rapidly develop 1.2 micron and 0.5 micron semiconductor and advanced computer-aided design tools.  Across town from ETA Systems, Honeywell Solid State Electronics was developing leading edge CMOS and packaging technologies under a VHSIC contract.
 
The presentation will describe how Honeywell and ETA Systems worked together to create the ETA-10, The First CMOS and Only Cryogenically Cooled Supercomputer.

Biography:

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 49-years.  He was a computer architect at Control Data, Sperry-Univac, and Honeywell.  He was involved with the government-sponsored advanced semiconductor program called VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) at Univac & Honeywell where he developed microprocessor and ASIC semiconductor products in bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS.  He was involved with emerging non-volatile RAM marketing at industry leading companies, Ramtron (FRAM), Simtek (non-volatile SRAM), and Freescale Semiconductor/Everspin Technologies (MRAM) as they became viable over the last 30-years.

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