Colossus computer
... been encrypted using the Lorenz SZ40/42 machine. Colossus compared two data streams, performing counts ... was an electronic simulation of the Lorenz machine at various trial settings. If the count ... electric typewriter. Purpose and origins The Lorenz machine was used by the Germans to encrypt ... using the Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher machine; part of the operation of Colossus was to emulate the mechanical Lorenz machine electronically. To encrypt a message with ...
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Tommy Flowers
... the German Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher machine. Flowers was born in London and, after ... War, Flowers was asked to join the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park, and it was ... who proposed solving the problems of the Heath Robinson machine by using an electronic system using ...
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Supercomputer
... contributing to the optimal utilization of the machine's hardware). This stems from the fact ... such as astrophysics computation and brute-force codebreaking. Examples of special-purpose supercomputers: Deep Blue ... Laboratory (LLNL). On October 28, 2005 the machine reached 280.6 TFLOPS, but the LLNL ... Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA TRE Heath Robinson 200 OPS Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton ...
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