supercomputer CDC 6000, which came onto the market in 1964.
In 1974 he co-founded
Network Systems Corporation
Network Systems Corporation (NSC) was an early manufacturer of high-performance computer networking products. Founded in 1974, NSC produced hardware products that connected IBM and Control Data Corporation (CDC) mainframe computers to peripherals ...
, which manufactured computer networks connecting mainframes and minicomputers, including
HYPERchannel.
In 1994 he received the
Eckert-Mauchly Award "for his pioneering work on high performance processors; for inventing the
scoreboard
A scoreboard is a large board for publicly displaying the score in a game. Most levels of sport from high school and above use at least one scoreboard for keeping score, measuring time, and displaying statistics. Scoreboards in the past used ...
for instruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vector supercomputing." In 1997 he received the
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE Computer Society "for pioneering contributions and leadership in high performance computing and networking."
References
External links
Oral history interview with James E. Thorntonat the
Charles Babbage Institute
The IT History Society (ITHS) is an organization that supports the history and scholarship of information technology by encouraging, fostering, and facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, ...
''Design of a Computer the Control Data 6600''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thornton, James E.
1925 births
2005 deaths
People from Saint Paul, Minnesota
University of Minnesota alumni
Control Data Corporation