The Advanced Scientific Computer, or ASC, was a
supercomputer architecture designed by
Texas Instruments (TI) between 1966 and 1973. Key to the ASC's design was a single high-speed shared memory, which was accessed by a number of processors and
channel controllers, in a fashion similar to
Seymour Cray's groundbreaking
CDC 6600. Whereas the 6600 featured ten smaller computers feeding a single math unit (
ALU), in the ASC this was simplified into a single 8-core processor feeding the ALU. The 4-core ALU/CPU was one of the first to include dedicated
vector processing instructions, with the ability to send the same instruction to all four cores.
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