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The supercomputer's name was chosen to honor the people of Cheyenne, Wyoming, who supported the installation of the NWSC and its computers there. [9] The name also commemorates the 150th anniversary of the city, which was founded in 1867 and named for the Native American Cheyenne Nation. [12]
Similar to Yellowstone, Cheyenne’s design and configuration will provide balanced I/O and exceptional computational capacity for the data-intensive needs of its user community. [41] Cheyenne debuted as the world's 20th most powerful computer in the November 2016 Top500 ranking. [42] Cheyenne was scheduled to go offline on December 31 2023. [43]
Yellowstone [1] was the inaugural supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center [2] (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was installed, tested, and readied for production in the summer of 2012. [3] The Yellowstone supercomputing cluster was decommissioned on December 31, 2017, [4] being replaced by its successor Cheyenne. [5]
It was near present-day Wheeless, Oklahoma. [b] The old Chisholm Trail crossed the river at Red Fork Station near present-day Dover, Oklahoma. In the 1890s the Creek Nation Cave along the Cimarron River near Ingalls in the Oklahoma Territory, was a hideout for the Doolin gang, which included the teenage bandits Cattle Annie and Little Britches ...
The Big Buffalo Valley Historic District, also known as the Boxley Valley Historic District, is notable as a cultural landscape in Buffalo National River. It comprises the Boxley Valley in northern Arkansas, near the town of Ponca. The valley includes a number of family-operated farms, primarily dating between 1870 and 1930.
The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. [1] The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is generally considered the first supercomputer.
In 1868, the U.S. carried out a surprise attack on Cheyenne families near the Washita River. The land is now a national historic site.
In 1908 Oklahoma's first insane asylum was established at the old post and which is now called the Western State Psychiatric Center. In 1988, the state legislature designated the remaining buildings at the old fort as the Fort Supply Historic District.