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Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program.
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Latest news
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Upcoming Events
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Updates on Projects
- A proposal to the Indo-U.S. Virtual Networked Centers program of the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum has been submitted that will link Colossus to PARAM.
- US National Institute of Health has approved the TOPAS team proposal to collaborate on Geant4/TOPAS FPGA project.
- CTH group members are meeting in San Jose at Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) 2019 conference to talk in person on October 1-2, 2019.
Current Actions
- TOPAS team is focussing on getting the IMRT test case out to port on FPGA.
- Xilinx team is working on FPGA implementation of initial example use cases of X-ray linac.
- Prof. Kolin Paul from IIT, Delhi with extensive Xilinx FPGA expertise is a new member of the Colossus team.
Server Status
- NCI server is undergoing some serious security audits right now. RHEL7 was the final Operating System installed. We have gen3 slot double-width x16 capacity coming our way in large numbers – 4 chassis, all x16 (Jeff on May 21, 2019)
- ILO key issue today, will likely get it fixed and taking ram to 768 GB. Expansion chassis to be installed soon. They are en route. (Jeff on June 11, 2019)
- Colossus will be available for access to CTH members soon.