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Supercomputers are computers designed to have roughly an order of magnitude or more higher performance than the then current state of the art standard computers. They are used for solving particularly computationally difficult problems that could not be done by other methods in a reasonable time so as to be useful. Some typical uses:
- Airflow models for aircraft, spacecraft, vehicles, wind turbine blades, etc. when using models in windtunnels would be impractical
- Nuclear weapons design and analysis
- Nuclear reactor design and analysis
- Petroleum oil field analysis based on collected acoustic data
- Cryptanalysis
- Long term weather forecasting
- Modeling of the electric transmission grid
- Aquifer models
- Combustion models for jet engines, car engines, rocket engines, etc.
- Firing tables for artillery pieces
- etc.
Of course what is one day's supercomputer is obsolete the next day as performance of standard computers advances. Same as with any other computer.
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What are the fastest most powerful computers and the most expensive a Embedded computers b Supercomputers c Mainframes d Mobiles devices?
B: Supercomputers
How have supercomputers changed over time?
new websites
Major vendors for supercomputers?
Today supercomputers are the fastest computers available and are used by military and defense research agencies, universities, independent research centers and some engineering corporations. Major vendors of these computers include IBM and HP.
What are the supercomputers and the country they belong to?
I suggest reading the TOP500 list, its changing all the time.
What are specially designed computers that can perform complex calculations extremely rapidly?
Super Computers
Why do airplanes use supercomputers?
Airplanes not necessarily use supercomputers but, supercomputers are used to design airplanes. One of the many uses of supercomputers is to model how wind and turbulence affect an airplane. Supercomputers are also used in advanced flight simulators.
What are the components used in supercomputers?
A supercomputer uses the same components as a home computer, simply uses more of them.
How many people per year does the usage of technology go up?
0. Everyone uses some form of technology - from rocks and sticks to supercomputers.
Why do you need supercomputers?
They are fast.
What is a big name in supercomputers?
Cray
Who is the major vendor for supercomputers?
IBM
What are today's supercomputers named?
K
Who is the best known builder for supercomputers?
Apple
Name of the first supercomputers in India?
param8000
What are two unique features of supercomputers?
SUPER
What is the world's largest computer in the world?
supercomputers
Which country has largest number of supercomputers?
Usa
