The document presents a history of supercomputers, defining them as high-performance computers introduced in the 1960s, with Cray being a key figure in their development. It highlights notable supercomputers, their performance metrics, and lists India's contributions to the field, including its top systems as of 2018. The conclusion emphasizes the ongoing necessity and future advancements of supercomputers in various research areas, including weather forecasting and nuclear research.

1. PRESENTATION ON-
HISTORY OF SUPERCOMPUTER
SUBMITTED TO:- DR. RUPESH KUMAR
(ASSOCIATE PROF. DSW)
SUBMITTED BY:- AVANISH KUMAR
MSW 3rd SEM.(REGULAR)
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW

2. Introduction
There have always been "wow that's fast!"
computers, but we didn't start calling them
supercomputers until 1964.
Cray, considered the “father of
supercomputing,” .
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several
decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data
Corporation (CDC)
The title of world’s fastest computer was held at the time by the
IBM 7030 “Stretch,” one of the first to use transistors instead of
vacuum tubes.

3. Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer
with a high level of performance
compared to a general-purpose
computer.
Performance of a supercomputer is
measured in floating point
operations per second (FLOPS)
instead of million instructions
per second (MIPS).
As of November 2017, all of the
world's fastest 500 supercomputers
run Linux-based operating systems.

5. Indian context

6. List of Supercomputers- Year wise
Year Supercomputer Peak Speed
(Rmax)
Location
2018 IBM Summit 122.3 PFLOPS Oak Ridge, U.S.
2016 Sunway TaihuLight 93.01 PFLOPS Wuxi, China
2013 NUDT Tianhe-2 33.86 PFLOPS Guangzhou, China
2012 Cray Titan 17.59 PFLOPS Oak Ridge, U.S.
2012 IBM Sequoia 17.17 PFLOPS Livermore, U.S.
2011 Fujitsu K computer 10.51 PFLOPS Kobe, Japan
2010 Tianhe-IA 2.566 PFLOPS Tianjin, China
2009 Cray Jaguar 1.759 PFLOPS Oak Ridge, U.S.
2008 IBM Roadrunner 1.026 PFLOPS Los Alamos, U.S.

7. Indian Supercomputers in Top 500
Rank Site Name Rmax
(TFlop/s)
Rpeak
(TFlop/s)
39 Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology
Pratyush (Cray
XC40)
3763.9 4006.2
66 National Centre for Medium
Range Weather Forecasting
Mihir (Cray
XC40)
2570.4 2808.7
206 Software Company InC1 – Lenovo
C1040
1123.2 1413.1
327 Indian Institute of Science SERC - Cray
XC40
901.5 1244.2
496 Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology
iData Plex
DX360M4
719.2 790.7
As of June 2018, India has 5 systems on the TOP500 list ranking as of
June 2018, India has 5 systems on the TOP500 list ranking

8. Purpose of Supercomputer
Weather Forecasting Research
Scientific Calculations
Astrophysics
Computation of Molecular Dynamics
Nuclear Research
In companies
In Biological Research- Protein structure

9. Use of Supercomputer Decade wise
Decade Uses and Computer involved
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-Proliferation Treaty (ASCIQ)
2010s Molecular Dynamics Simulation (Tianhe-1A)

10. Conclusion
Supercomputer will become necessary in our future.
Supercomputer has strong operation system, storage
capacity and function to help us to calculation.
Supercomputer helps in weather forecasting, Nuclear
research and scientific research and calculations.
In the future, the progress of science and technology make
supercomputer become smaller and lighter, but better
functions.