2. A supercomputer is a computer with great
speed and memory. This kind of computer
can do jobs faster than any other computer
of its generation. They are usually
thousands of times faster than ordinary
personal computers made at that time.
3. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s
and were designed by Seymour Cray at Control
Data Corporation (CDC), which led the market
into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own
company, Cray Research.
He then took the supercomputer market with his
new designs, holding the top spot in
supercomputing for five years (1985–1990).
Today, supercomputers are typically designs and
produced by traditional companies such as Cray.
5. Supercomputers speed are measured in
floating point operations per second
(FLOPS) in units of :
megaflops (MFLOPS)
gigaflops (GFLOPS)
teraflops (TFLOPS)
6. Used for solving high calculation and intensive
tasks like:
Weather forecasting
Analysis of data and information
Astronomical Observation
Integrate design of engineering products
For solving large input scientific
calculations and advanced scientific
problems.
8. A multi- processor computers has two or
more CPU’s
The CPU shares the different parts of
computers like memory, disk system, bus
etc.
Each processor is capable of running
different program simultaneously(true
multi-tasking)
9.
10. Most supercomputers run on a Linux or
Unix operating system, as these operating
systems are extremely flexible, stable,
and efficient.
Supercomputers typically have multiple
processors and a variety of other
technological tricks to ensure that they
run smoothly.
11. Generates large amount of heat.
The speed of data transfer will limit the
super computer’s performance.
Supercomputer’s consume and produce
massive amount of data in a very short
period of time .
12. RANK NO 1 - JAGUAR
SUPERCOMPUTER
RANK NO 2- ROAD RUNNER
RANK NO3- TENNESSEE’s
KRAKEN
14. High speed(1.759 Petaflop)
Great performance
High data transfer rate(284GB/s)
High system memory(362TB)
15. Required large area
Very costly($19.5million)
Required more electricity
Large number of chips(37,376 chips)
16. Aspen Systems
SGI
IBM
Cray Research
Compaq
Hewlett-Packard
Thinking Machines
Cray Computer Corporation
Control Data Corporation
17. Supercomputing has played, and continues to
play, an essential role in national security and
in scientific discovery.
The ability to address important scientific and
engineering challenges depends on continued
investments in supercomputing.
Moreover, the increasing size and complexity
of new applications will require the continued
evolution of supercomputing for the
foreseeable future.