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Encyclopedia > Strela computer

Strela computer (ЭВМ "Стрела") was the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union. Strela means arrow. A 1990 Honeywell-Bull DPS 7 mainframe CPU Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for mission critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and financial transaction processing. ...


The chief designer was Yuri Bazilevsky (Ю.Я. Базилевский). Among his deputies was Boris Rameyev, chief constructor of the Ural computer series. It was designed at Special Design Bureau 245 (СКБ245; Argon R&D Institute (НИИ "Аргон") since 1986), Moscow. Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: (?)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ...


Strelas were manufactured by the Moscow Plant of Computing-Analytical Machines (Московский завод счетно-аналитических машин) during 1953-1957; 7 copies were manufactued. They were installed in the Computing Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow State University, and in computing centres of some ministries (related to defense and economical planning). Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institute specializing in computational mathematics. ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский Государственный Университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ...


This first-generation computer had 6200 vacuum tubes and 60,000 semiconductor diodes. In electronics, a vacuum tube (American English) or (thermionic) valve (British English) is a device generally used to amplify a signal. ... A semiconductor is a material with an electrical conductivity that is intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor. ... Types of diodes A diode functions as the electronic version of a one-way valve. ...


Its speed was 2000 operations per second. Its floating-point arithmetics was based on 43-bit words with a signed 35-bit mantissa and a signed 6-bit exponent. Operative vacuum-tube memory (RAM) was 2048 words. It also had read-only semiconductor diode memory for programs. Data input was from punch cards or from the magnetic tape. Data output was to magnetic tape, punch cards or wide printer. The punch card (or Hollerith card) is a recording medium for holding information for use by automated data processing machines. ...


The last version of Strela used a 4096-word magnetic drum, rotating at 6000 rpm.


In 1954 the designers of Strela were awarded the Stalin Prize of 1st degree (V. Alexandrov, Yu. Bazilevsky, D. Zhuchkov, I. Lygin, G. Markov, B. Melnikov, G. Prokudayev, B. Rameyev, N. Trubnikov, A. Tsygankin, Yu. Shcherbakov, L. Larionova (Александров В. В., Базилевский Ю. Я., Жучков Д. А., Лыгин И. Ф., Марков Г. Я., Мельников Б. Ф., Прокудаев Г. М., Рамеев Б. И., Трубников Н. Б., Цыганкин А. П., Щербаков Ю. Ф., Ларионова Л.А.)). 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The USSR State Prize (Russian:Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР) was the Soviet Unions highest civilian honour. ...


See also

  • History of computer hardware in communist countries

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Strela Computer (400 words)
Field of application: scientific computations in research organizations and computer centers of several ministries.
Several types of group arithmetic and logical operations, conditional jumps and changeable standard programs, as well as control test systems and organizing programs provided for creation of application program libraries for different purposes with size up to 100 million commands.
Strela received the State prise in 1954 During several years it was the most productive computer of the country.
The General Layout of a Computer (1161 words)
A simple computer can be thought of as being organized like a pocket calculator, with one main register, corresponding to the display of the calculator, called the accumulator, and a limited number of other memory registers.
Computers with magnetic drum memories only often, like the IBM 650, included an extra address in every instruction indicating where the next instruction would come from, so that instructions could be spaced according to the time it took them to execute (optimum programming).
Larger computers, that had more than one accumulator, could use the field normally specifying a destination register in the jump instructions, where this was not applicable to specify a condition for jumping.
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