 It is most notable for creating the CP-40 and the "control program" portions of CP/CMS, a virtual machine operating system developed for the IBM System/360-67.The IBM Data Processing Division (DPD) sponsored five Scientific Center research groups in the United States and some others around the world to work with selected universities on a variety of customer-related projects.The IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY was a separate laboratory organization at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center that tended more to "pure" research topics.