Cyberscience Center Display Room

Cyberscience Center Tohoku University is a joint use computing facility to do academic research for university researchers in all over Japan and have a latest supercomputer system which is far beyond a laboratory level and core facilities of campus networks. In the first floor, there is a room for the display of parts, units and cabinets of historical computers including the units of a parametron computer jointly developed by Tohoku University and NEC in early computer days. This room was set up to inform people widely about the history of computer technology development.

Major exhibits are as follows:

• Materials of parametron computer SENAC-1
• General purpose computer ACOS System 900 (LSI package, CPU Unit and Memory Unit)
• Parallel computer TX-7/AzusA (CPU/Memory Unit)
• Supercomputer SX-2N （LSI Package）
• Supercomputer SX-3 (CPU Unit）
• Supercomputer SX-4 （CPU Unit，Memory Unit）
• Earth Simulator（Two nodes）
• Supercomputer SX-7 （CPU Unit，Memory Unit）
• Supercomputer SX-7C （CPU Unit，Memory Unit）
• Supercomputer SX-9 （CPU Unit，Memory Unit）
• Supercomputer SX-ACE （CPU Chip，Node Module）
• Disk Drives（Five kinds）
• General purpose computer ACOS 3900/10 （CPU Cabinet）
• Portable printer
• Optical fibers: cross-sectional view, Various metal cables
• FDDI bridge unit (100Mbps), Repeater unit, Terminal server unit, 10BASE-5 tap transceiver, Microwave radio communication system (50GHz)
• ATM switch, FDDI/TPDDI concentrator
• Router (1Gbps〜), Switch (1Gbps〜), Time division duplex unit (1Gbps x 8 ⇔ 10Gbps)