Do u know what is SUPER COMPUTER. ?

I agree with you. But their importance won't go away..I think...still more and more fast computers are coming up...may be mainly for satellite operations and all....

no i dont know about it

At any given moment, there is a new computer that is the fastest. Among the contenders are IBM and CRAY. But distributed processing is a constantly growing super computer that can include YOU. Visit Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and join the largest computing efforts on our planet.

No i dont know

i know that it made by indian.

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seems that you already posted every thing there is about super computer, i guess there is no need to discuss about it any more don't you think. greetings. : )

i think it is a computer which runs 2 supersonic speed

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Super computers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research (including research into global warming), molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion), cryptanalysis, and the like. Major universities, military agencies and scientific research laboratories are heavy users.

A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. The term "Super Computing" was first used by New York World newspaper in 1920 to refer to large custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University.

Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research. He then took over the supercomputer market with his new designs, holding the top spot in supercomputing for 5 years (1985–1990). Cray, himself, never used the word "supercomputer," a little-remembered fact in that he only recognized the word "computer." In the 1980s a large number of smaller competitors entered the market, in a parallel to the creation of the minicomputer market a decade earlier, but many of these disappeared in the mid-1990s "supercomputer market crash". Today, supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by "traditional" companies such as IBM and HP, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience, although Cray Inc. still specializes in building supercomputer The term supercomputer itself is rather fluid, and today's supercomputer tends to become tomorrow's normal computer. CDC's early machines were simply very fast scalar processors, some ten times the speed of the fastest machines offered by other companies. In the 1970s most supercomputers were dedicated to running a vector processor, and many of the newer players developed their own such processors at a lower price to enter the market. The early and mid-1980s saw machines with a modest number of vector processors working in parallel become the standard. Typical numbers of processors were in the range 4–16. In the later 1980s and 1990s, attention turned from vector processors to massive parallel processing systems with thousands of "ordinary" CPUs, some being off the shelf units and others being custom designs. (This is commonly and humorously referred to as the attack of the killer micros in the industry.) Today, parallel designs are based on "off the shelf" server-class microprocessors, such as the PowerPC, IA-64, or x86-64, and most modern supercomputers are now highly-tuned computer clusters using commodity processors combined with custom interconnec

# A time dependent term which refers to the class of most powerful computer systems world-wide at the time of reference. # An extremely fast computer that can perform hundreds of millions of instructions per second. # Refers to those computing systems (hardware, systems software, and applications software) that provide close to the best currently achievable sustained performance on demanding computational problems. # The class of fastest and most powerful computers available. # a computer that performs at or near the current highest operational rate for computers. Such a computer is typically used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation. The most significant difference between a supercomputer and a mainframe is that a supercomputer channels all its power into executing a few programs as fast as possible, whereas a mainframe uses its power to execute many programs simultaneously. # A large mainframe computer; usually reserved for computers with the fastest speeds and largest memory. These computers usually have an architecture that is different from regular mainframes. The main difference lies in the ability to perform vector and/or parallel processing. # The most powerful class of computer. The term was first applied to the Cray-1 computer. Supercomputers can cost in the billions, and have extremely vast capabilities. # The fastest and most expensive type of computer designed for massive mathematical calculations necessary for much high-level scientific research. Supercomputer speeds today are measured in gigaflops (one billion floating point mathematical operations in a second) and soon in teraflops (one trillion such operations). # The fastest, largest, and most powerful type of computer. # A computer that can process a great deal of information or make involved and extensive calculations very, very quickly. # Unusually powerful computers that can perform complex calculations quickly. # a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time # A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1920 to refer to the large custom built tabulators IBM had made for Columbia University. ...

One way of measuring CPU speed is the frequency it runs at. We are all familiar with this; I have a 2.4 gig processor. This is a quick and dirty way to measure, because obviously, the faster it runs the more it can do in one second. However, the real way it's measured by the propeller hatted members of our society is by the number of commands it can execute in a second. I forget the actual numbers, but PCs run (I think) in the thousands of commands per second, but a supercomputer operates in the TERA operations per second range. Doing a search for CRAY will provide some details. If you're doing homework; here's something that will get you heaps of extra credit and a date on Sunday night. (Just kidding about the date!) Look up 'hive'. a bunch of PCs strung together to increase instruction per second throughput.

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plagiarism is frown upon here and can get you the boot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer I really hate that people here do this and try and get paid for something that is not there work and no link back to the information. They want you to think they wrote it.

do you have that?

Nope I never heard of Super Computer. I know computers with lost of gigs.

i guess a computer with super powers

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