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Unit 1, Lesson 1 Activity 2

SUPERCOMPUTERS
Read the first section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
What is a supercomputer? Image result for what is a super computer?
Examples of special-purpose supercomputers include Belle,
Deep Blue, and Hydra for playing chess, Gravity Pipe for
astrophysics,

What does FLOPS stand for? The results of the benchmark are measured in flops which
stands for floating point operations per second.

Since 2017, there are supercomputers there are supercomputers which can perform over 1017
which can perform over… FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or
100 PFLOPS). Since November 2017, all of the world's
fastest 500 supercomputers run Linux-based operating
systems.

Who is Cray? Origin: United States. Currently based in Los Angeles, CRAY
(Cheney Ray) started her career performing as an opener on
Anna .

List some things that supercomputers are Supercomputers are used for data-intensive and computation-
used for: heavy scientific and engineering purposes such as quantum
mechanics, weather forecasting, oil and gas

Videos:
Watch: SuperComputers As Fast as Possible

Adichie gave several examples of the single story in action:


Watch: The single story of Africa as a place of catastrophe; the single
What makes a SuperComputer “Super”? story of Mexicans as “abject immigrants;” the single story of
poor people “as [nothing] else but poor.
As you are watching, make a list of terms
that you have heard for the first time or know
little about.

Google: What is Moore’s Law? Moore's Law has been predicting the exponential growth of
Why do people believe this theory is computing power for 50+ years. Often declared dead, it's still
irrelevant with today’s technology? refusing to die. Moore's Law has been predicting the
exponential growth of computing power for over .

Google: What is AI? (AI)? Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human


intelligence processes by machines, especially computer
systems

Go to this site and look for answers to the questions below:


https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2022/06/
Look at TOP 10 Sites for June 2022
What nation has the highest rated supercomputer USA has by far the most performance share of the
currently? list (almost half), while China currently leads the list
in number of systems with 173 supercomputers, with
the USA not far behind

Scroll down and look at the top 10 supercomputers. Top 10 supercomputers


What are the brands of supercomputers that you Fugaku, Japan. Built by Fujitsu, Fugaku is installed at
recognize? the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-
CCS) in Kobe, Japan. ...
Summit, U.S. ...
Sierra, U.S. ...

How many supercomputers does the United States Sunway TaihuLight, China. ...
have in the top 10? Selene, U.S. ...
Tianhe-2A, China. ...
JUWELS Booster Module, Germany. ...
HPC5, Italy.
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