please see TOP100 list as this can change any time..
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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.
These computers are of significant size and cost millions of dollars.
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.
yes at nust we have the fastest supercomputer
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They are fast, but a supercomputer is faster.
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For an answer to this see the TOP500 list which is updated on june and november of every year.
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please see the TOP500 list as it changes all the time.
Because it became the fastest and the largest supercomputer in Asia----Kary.
Supercomputer "Jaguar" was built by the supercomputer manufacturer "Cray" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In November 2009 it's performance peaked at 1750 teraflops (1.75 petaflops) making it the fastest computer in the world.
It depends what type of computer you're talking about but the fastest computer in the world regardless of the type is China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer at 33.86 petaFLOPS, or 33.86 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
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.
This cannot really be answered because the term supercomputer is relative to the era. However, the term supercomputer started in common use in early 1980's when everyone was racing to show how fast their computers were. In the 1980's, the fastest supercomputer when this term was first in regular use was a Cray computer. This is not something that was discovered or invented, but developed by many over time.