Ci Yungui

Ci Yungui, male, born in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was a Chinese computer scientist widely honored as "the father of China's supercomputers". He led the development of China's first vacuum‑tube digital computer prototype, first transistorized general‑purpose computer and first supercomputer. Most of the researchers who successfully developed the "Galaxy" and "Tianhe-1" supercomputer series were his students. In 1980, Ci Yungui was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academ

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