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Supercomputers are the most powerful computers available. They have multiple processors, memories, and can process data at much higher speeds than standard computers, measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The first supercomputer was built in 1957. Modern supercomputers use clusters of processors and have various applications like weather forecasting, nuclear research, and oil/gas exploration. The fastest current supercomputer is Summit, located in the US.

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Super Computer Presentation

Supercomputers are the most powerful computers available. They have multiple processors, memories, and can process data at much higher speeds than standard computers, measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The first supercomputer was built in 1957. Modern supercomputers use clusters of processors and have various applications like weather forecasting, nuclear research, and oil/gas exploration. The fastest current supercomputer is Summit, located in the US.

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SUPER

COMPUTERS
Most powerful computer
CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Comparison Between Standard Computer and Super
computer
 Overview

 History

 Architecture

 Hardware

 Applications
Introduction:
A supercomputer is a computer with great speed and
memory. This kind of computers are thousands of times
faster than ordinary personal computers .
Comparison Between Standard Computer and Super
computer

Standard Computer Supercomputer

Single Processor Multiple processors

Single memory Multiple memories

Less Processing Speed & execution High Processing speed & execution

Measured in GHz Measured in FLOPS


Overview
 High Performance(measured in FLOPS instead
of MIPS)
 Multiple cores
 Housed in large clean rooms with high air flow
to permit cooling
 Used to solve problems that are too difficult for
standard computers
History
 First supercomputer built by Seymour Cray in Control Data
Corporation (CDC) in 1957
 CDC 1604 one of the first computers to replace vacuum
tubes with transistors
 Release of CDC
6600 by Seymour
Cray considered
the world’s first
Supercomputer
ARCHITECTURE
 Most supercomputers are clusters of MIMD
multiprocessors, each processor of which is
SIMD
 A SIMD processor executes the same
instruction on more than one set of data at the
same time
 MIMD is employed to achieve parallelism, by
using a number of processors that function
asynchronously and independently
 SIMD:Single Instruction, Multiple Data

 MIMD:Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data


Hardware

 Super  Super computer of  Super computer of


Computer of 1990s. present
1970s
Measurement of speed & performance

Supercomputers speed are measured in floating point


operations per second (FLOPS) in units of :
 Megaflops (MFLOPS)
 Gigaflops (GFLOPS)
 Teraflops (TFLOPS
APPLICATIONS
Supercomputers are used to perform the most
compute-intensive tasks of modern times

 Computational Science
 weather Forecasting, Climate Research
 nuclear explosion dynamics
 Oil and Gas Exporation
 credit card transaction processing
 design and testing of modern aircraft
 cryptology
MANUFACTURERS
IBM
Aspen Systems
SGI
Cray Research
Compaq
Hewlett-Packard
Thinking Machines
Cray Computer Corporation
Control Data Corporation
Top 3 Supercomputers
 Summit.
 Sierra
 Sunway Taihu Light
World's fastest Supercomputer
 Summit
Advantages of Summit
High speed(200 Petaflop)
Great performance
High data transfer rate(2.5TB/s)
High system memory(250 Petabyte)
Conclusion
Supercomputing has played, and continues to
play, an essential role in national security and
in scientific discovery.
Moreover, the increasing size and complexity
of new applications will require the continued
evolution of supercomputing for the
foreseeable future.

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