Supercomputers: An Overview
• Introduction to high performance computing
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and its importance.
What is a Supercomputer?
• Definition and explanation of extremely
powerful computing systems.
History of Supercomputing
• From ENIAC to modern exascale machines.
Key Characteristics
• Speed, memory, storage, and massive
parallelism.
Architecture of Supercomputers
• Overview of nodes, interconnects, and system
design.
Parallel Processing
• How supercomputers run tasks
simultaneously.
FLOPS: Measuring Performance
• Floating point operations per second as the
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main benchmark.
Top500 List
• Global ranking of the world's most powerful
computers.
Examples of Leading
Supercomputers
• Summit, Fugaku, Frontier, LUMI, etc.
Supercomputers in Scientific
Research
• Simulations, modeling, and complex
calculations.
Weather Forecasting Applications
• Climate, storms, and global models.
Supercomputers in AI & Machine
Learning
• AI training at massive scale.
Uses in Medicine & Healthcare
• Drug discovery, genomics, and simulations.
Energy & Climate Modeling
• Renewable energy, weather patterns, CO2
modeling.
Supercomputers in National
Security
• Cryptography, defense simulations,
surveillance.
Challenges in Supercomputing
• Heat, cost, hardware limits.
Power Consumption Issues
• Huge electricity demands and cooling needs.
Future Trends: Exascale Computing
• Next gen systems performing 10^18
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calculations/sec.
Quantum Computing vs
Supercomputers
• Differences and relationship between
quantum and classical HPC.
Conclusion
• Final thoughts and future potential.

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