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1. The top five supercomputers in the world are the Sunway TaihuLight in China, Tianhe-2 in China, Titan in the United States, Sequoia in the United States, and the K Computer in Japan. 2. Supercomputers are highly specialized computers used for scientific and engineering applications that require immense processing power, such as predicting the weather, modeling molecular structures, simulating effects like wind turbulence, and exploring space and earthquakes. 3. In Pakistan, supercomputers are used by organizations like universities, the atomic energy commission, and defense industries for research purposes.

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1. The top five supercomputers in the world are the Sunway TaihuLight in China, Tianhe-2 in China, Titan in the United States, Sequoia in the United States, and the K Computer in Japan. 2. Supercomputers are highly specialized computers used for scientific and engineering applications that require immense processing power, such as predicting the weather, modeling molecular structures, simulating effects like wind turbulence, and exploring space and earthquakes. 3. In Pakistan, supercomputers are used by organizations like universities, the atomic energy commission, and defense industries for research purposes.

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TYPES OF SUPER

COMPUTERS AND ITS


PRACTICAL
APPLICATIONS
ASSINGMENT
NO.2

Submitted by.

Submitted To.

RAMIZ-UR-REHMAN

SIR KHURRAM
KHAN

FA14-EX-0039

SUPER COMPUTER
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently
highest operational rate for computers. Traditionally, supercomputers have
been used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very
large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both). The most
powerful computers in terms of performance and data processing are the
Supercomputers. These are specialized and task specific computers used by
large organizations. These computers are used for research and exploration
purposes, like NASA uses supercomputers for launching space shuttles,
controlling them and for space exploration purpose. The supercomputers are
very expensive and very large in size. It can be accommodated in large airconditioned rooms; some super computers can span an entire building.

TOP FIVE RANKING OF SUPER COMPUTERS


RANK SITE

SYSTEM

National Supercomputing Center in


Wuxi , China

Sunway Taihu Light

National Super computer in


Guanzhou, China

Tianhe - 2 (MilkyWay - 2)

DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National


Laboratory, United States

Titan - Cray XK7, Cray Inc.

DOE/NNSA/LLNL, United States

Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, IBM

RIKEN Advanced Institute for


Computational Science (AICS)
Japan

K Computer, Tofu Interconnect


Fujitsu.

1- Sunway TaihuLight

The Sunway TaihuLight is a Chinese supercomputer which, as of June 2016, is


ranked number one in the TOP500 list as the fastest supercomputer in the
world with a LINPACK benchmark rating of 93 pet flops. This is nearly three
times as fast as the previous holder of the record, the Tianhe-2, which ran at
34 peta flops. As of June 2016, it is also ranked as the third most energyefficient supercomputer.

2-Tianhe-2
It was the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 lists for
June 2013, November 2013, June 2014, November 2014, June 2015, and
November 2015.The record was surpassed in June 2016 by the Sunway
TaihuLight. In 2015, plans of the Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with
Guangzhou district and city administration to double its computing capacities
were stopped by a US government rejection of Intel's application for an
export license for the CPUs and coprocessor boards.

3- Titan
Titan is a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for
use in a variety of science projects. Titan is an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous
supercomputer at Oak Ridge, that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) in
addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs). Titan is the first
such hybrid to perform over 10 peta FLOPS. The upgrade began in October
2011, commenced stability testing in October 2012 and it became available
to researchers in early 2013.

4- Sequoia
IBM Sequoia is a petascale Blue Gene/Q supercomputer constructed by IBM
for the National Nuclear Security Administration as part of the Advanced
Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). It was delivered to the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2011 and was fully deployed in June
2012.

5- K Computer
Is a supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, currently installed at the RIKEN
Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan. The K
computer is based on a distributed memory architecture with over 80,000
computer nodes. It is used for a variety of applications, including climate

research, disaster prevention and medical research. The K computer's


operating system is based on the Linux kernel.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF SUPER


COMPUTERS
Supercomputers are used for many different things in todays society. For
example,

supercomputers

are

used

to

help

predict

the

weather.

Meteorologists use them to do research on the climate and global warming.


Scientist use them for molecular modeling, which gives them the opportunity
to

compute

the structures

and

properties

of

biological

compounds.

Supercomputers are also used for simulations, for example, the effect of
wind and turbulence on an airplane; and the simulation of the effect of a
nuclear weapon if it were to be detonated.

Space Exploration
Supercomputers are used to study the origin of the universe, the darkmatters. For these studies scientist use IBMs powerful supercomputer
Roadrunner at National Laboratory Los Alamos.

Earthquake studies
Supercomputers are used to study the Earthquakes phenomenon. Besides
that supercomputers are used for natural resources exploration, like natural
gas, petroleum, coal, etc.

Weather Forecasting
Supercomputers are used for weather forecasting, and to study the nature
and extent of Hurricanes, Rainfalls, windstorms, etc.

Nuclear weapons testing


Supercomputers are used to run weapon simulation that can test the Range,
accuracy & impact of Nuclear weapons

Uses of Supercomputers In PAKISTAN


In Pakistan Supercomputers are used by Educational Institutes like NUST for
research purposes. Pakistan Atomic Energy commission & Heavy Industry
Taxila uses supercomputers for Research purposes.

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