This document provides an overview of supercomputers, including:
- A history of supercomputers beginning in the 1960s with Seymour Cray's CDC 6600.
- Uses of supercomputers including weather forecasting, astrophysics simulations, and COVID-19 research.
- Examples of top supercomputers from 2020 including Fugaku from Japan and Cray systems.
- How supercomputers are depicted in science fiction and their potential applications in robotics.
- Both advantages like speed and cost effectiveness for complex tasks, and disadvantages like high costs and power needs.
- Predictions that exascale supercomputers will emerge in the 2020s and yottascale machines in the early 2050
2. INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
DISCOVERY
USED FOR
PURPOSE
USES AND ACCORDING TO DECADES
IN FICTION
TOP SUPER COMPUTERS
ROBOTICS
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
FUTURE OF SUPER COMPUTERS
3. A super computer is a computer with a high level of
performance compared to general purpose computer .
Supercomputer is a computer with great speed and memory.
This kind of computer can do jobs faster than any other
computer of its generation.
4. Super Computers were introduced in the
1960s.
Seymour Cray designed the first
commercially successful super computer.
It was the Control Data Corporation(CDC)
6600, releasd in 1964.
The Cray-I was a supercomputer
designed, manufactured and
marketed by Cray Research.
5. The term supercomputing arose in the late 1920s in the
United States in response to the IBM tabulators at Columbia
University.
Progress in the first decade of the 21st century was
dramatic and supercomputers with over 60,000 processors
appeared, petaflop reaching to the petaflop performance.
6. Weather Forecasting.
Astrodynamics.
Quantum Mechanics.
Aerodynamics.
In early 2020, COVID-19 was front and
center in the world. Supercomputers used
different simulations to find compounds that
could potentially stop the spread.
7. A. Gravity Pipe For Astrophysics.
B. Scientific And Engineering Work Requiring Exceedingly
High Speed Computations.
C. Accuracy.
D. Genetic Engineering.
E. Security.
F. Online Gaming.
8. 1970s :- Weather forecasting, aerodynamic research Cray-
1).
1980s:-Probabilistic analysis, radiation shielding
modeling (CDC Cyber).
1990s:-Brute force code breaking (EFF DES cracker).
2000s:-3D nuclear test simulations as a substitute for legal
conduct Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty (ASCI Q).
2010s:-Molecular dynamics simulation (Tianhe-1A)
2020s:-Scientific research for outbreak
prevention/Electrochemical Reaction Research.
9. Super computers are used to
create fiction in
fiction in movies.
Many science fiction
writer’s have depicted
super computers in their
works.
Examples of supercomputers in fiction
include HAL 9000, Multivac.
.
10. RMAX Rpeak MODEL
A. 1,102.00-1,685.65 HPE Cray EX235a
B.442.010-537.212 Supercomputer Fugaku 3
C.151.90-214.35 HPE Cray EX235a
D.148.600-200.795 IBM Power System AC922
11. * Robot using a supercomputer.
1. Iillustration of humanoid robot.
2. Artificial intelligence control.
3. Carrying out large number of
calculations with the of robots.
4. Weather forecasting.
5. Science modelling.
6. Cosmology.
12. I. Cost Effective.
II. Companies that use supercomputers
saves a lot of time in managing tasks.
III. Security.
IV. A supercomputer offers enhanced
protection by decrypting the
password.
V. Speed.
VI. Complex Tasks.
VII. Environment friendly.
13. I. It can be expensive.
II. It requires trained staff.
III. This computer does not replace physical
testing.
IV. Takes up a lot of space.
V. The bandwidth of data does not
synchronize with the device's hard drive
storage.
VI. May only be good for specific
applications.
VII. High power requirement.
14. "post-K" supercomputer is predicted to
arrive in 2021 or 2022. Later this decade,
and into the 2030s, it seems safe to predict
that supercomputers with tens and even
hundreds of exa FLOPS will emerge, since
the trend in computing power is
exponential.
Looking even further into the future, we
arrive at Yotta FLOPS, a computing
milestone that may occur in the early
2050s.