supercomputerA supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. A supercomputer is typically used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both).
At any given time, there are usually a few well-publicized supercomputers that operate at extremely high speeds. The term is also sometimes applied to far slower (but still impressively fast) computers. Most supercomputers are really multiple computers that perform parallel processing. In general, there are two parallel processing approaches: symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and massively parallel processing (MPP).
The definition of a supercomputer is "a particularly powerful mainframe computer." and the advantages are: -good for crunching data -generally used for science models and things of that nature disadvantages are: -they consume butt loads of electricity -they are expensive -require warehouses to contain them -gaming on them would be impractical -only can be efficiently and are generally only used for scientific and educational uses
These computers are of significant size and cost millions of dollars.
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A supercomputer generates a lot of heat, so it needs air conditioning to compensate, otherwise it would overheat the room and burn itself up.
The first Cray supercomputer (Cray 1) was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, CA in 1976. Components were built in Chippewa Falls, WI and moved to California for final assembly.
Given similar technology the supercomputer is faster, by definition.
It is a matter of definition, but anyway in the 1960's.
i think latest supercomputer is "road runner".
Pi: the area of a circle. Pi is a never ending number. (3.1415926535...) A Japanese supercomputer once calculated 3 trillion digits of pi. Ten years later an American supercomputer found 6 trillion digits of pi proving it was never ending.
The MacBook is a great computer but it would not be officially classed as a SuperComputer.
Supercomputer is measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second)
San Diego Supercomputer Center was created in 1985.
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No - a supercomputer is a single device or system (although fast and expensive). A massive collection of networked computers can give the results of a supercomputer but they would not be considered one.
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