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What the supercomputer could perform 5000 additions or subtractions per second?
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∙ 9y ago
5,000 calculations per second is glacially slow for a supercomputer. I do not believe anyone ever built a supercomputer that was that slow. The first viable supercomputer was the Cray-1, built in 1976. The Cray-1 was able to perform about 136 Mega-FLOPS (136,000). Today's supercomputers perform more than 5 Trillion (5,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second (FLOPS).
The first computer deliberately designed to be "significantly faster" than the fastest computer of the time, the IBM NORC is occasionally called the "first supercomputer" (although it doesn't meet all the requirements usually set for qualification) could perform 66,667 additions or subtractions per second (but this was a unique one of a kind computer). This is more than 13 times faster than the speed you are asking about.
Even the first computer generally identified as a "supercomputer" the UNIVAC LARC could perform 250,000 additions or subtractions per second (however it was far from viable as only two of these machines were built, UNIVAC spent more building them than they were payed, and it was already completely obsolete the day the first one was finished). This is 50 times faster than the speed you are asking about.
All later supercomputers (viable or not) were faster than the LARC.
You might be thinking of ENIAC, which did 5000 additions or subtractions per second per accumulator but had 20 accumulators and sometimes operated 2 or more accumulators at the same time. But NOBODY ever considered ENIAC a supercomputer.
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How fast was the ENIAC's processor?
Each accumulator could do 5000 additions/subtractions per second and there were 20 accumulators that could operate simultaneously.
Which generation computer is a supercomputer?
There have been supercomputers in all generations of computers. As the definition of supercomputer is simply any computer having at least 10 times the performance of currently available high performance computers, the very fastest computers of any generation are supercomputers. It is usually scientific and cryptographic applications that drive the need for supercomputers.Some examples of supercomputers from various computer generations are:IBM NORC, first generationUNIVAC LARC, second generationIBM 7030 Stretch, second generationCDC 6600, second generationCDC 7600, second generationILLIAC IV, third generationCDC Star-100, third generationCray-1, third generationetc.
Who invented the second supercomputer?
The first 4 machines commonly considered supercomputers are:IBM NORCUnivac LARCIBM Stretch 7030CDC 6600Except for the CDC 6600, invented by Seymour Cray, none of these had a single definite inventor.
How many microprocessor chip does super computer uses?
Anywhere from zero up to as many needed. A supercomputer is not defined by number of processors, but by processing speed (however achieved), typically measured in FLOPS (FLoating point Operations Per Second) although there are other measures. Normally to be called a supercomputer it must have a processing speed at least an order of magnitude faster than the fastest commonly available computers available when it is introduced.
What Can the eniac do?
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was a groundbreaking electronic computer built in the 1940s. It could perform complex calculations and solve mathematical problems. The ENIAC was primarily used for ballistic calculations during World War II, but it also had applications in scientific research and weather prediction.
How fast was the ENIAC?
Each Accumulator could do 5000 additions or subtractions per second and there were 20 Accumulators that could potentially all run simultaneously if the problem could be setup with enough parallelism (which was difficult to do and thus rare, even when it could be done it was impossible to sustain for long).The theoretical ideal case speed (with full parallelism) was 5000 * 20 = 100,000 additions or subtractions per second.
How fast was the ENIAC's processor?
Each accumulator could do 5000 additions/subtractions per second and there were 20 accumulators that could operate simultaneously.
What was the speed of 1st computer?
here are some answers:ABC, 30 binary fixed point additions/subtractions per secondHarvard Mark I, 3 decimal fixed point addition/subtractions per secondZuse Z3, 1 binary floating point addition in 0.8 secondsENIAC, 5000 decimal fixed point additions/subtractions in each of 20 accumulators per second
What is the processing speed of a supercomputer?
Supercomputer is measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second)
Who invented the second supercomputer in India?
yoo ha
How would you evaluate a numeric expression with addition subtraction multiplication and exponents?
You didn't include division in your question, but I will include it in the answer. First, evaluate all the exponents. Second, do all the multiplications and divisions together, in order from left to right. Third, do all the additions and subtractions together, in order from left to right.
What is the measuring unit of supercomputer speed?
" FLOPS " = Floating Point operations Per Second
If a 2.5GHz computer can process 2 additions per cycle how many additions are executed per second?
Theoretically, five billion.
How fast supercomputer can perform calculations?
Most of the fastest 100 computers in the world can execute 5 Trillion (5,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second (FLOPS) The new Fastest Supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner, just achieved 1 PetaFLOPS (1 quadrillion - 1,000,000,000,000,000 computations per second in early June, 2008) The actual measured speed was 1.047 PetaFLOPS. However, it is still being built - and should achieve 1.7 PetaFLOPS by the end of 2008.
Which computer is super fast computer in 2014?
In June 2014 the world's fastest supercomputer was Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology. This checked out at 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark.
What is the second meaning of performed?
of Perform
Can you perform hajj second time?
Ofcourse a person can perform Hajj for 2nd time.
