Seymour Cray invented supercomputer. In 1960s a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance. The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is generally considered the first supercomputer.
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Another name for a supercomputer is called a NAP( Network Access Point)
NASA has probablly the biggest SuperComputer in the entire world, i may be wrong, but from what I've seen it is the largest. Try using Google images too find the biggest!
Yes they do. As far as I know, they already use or will be using the IBM Blue Gene. http://newsbytes.ph/2013/05/18/ph-gets-its-first-supercomputer/ http://betterphils.blogspot.jp/2013/06/first-supercomputer-in-asean-countries.html
A supercomputer typically costs millions of dollars to purchase and requires significant ongoing maintenance costs, which can range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per year.
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It's a trick question. Philip Emeagwali only invented the myth that he invented something that was already their when he used it.
i think latest supercomputer is "road runner".
The MacBook is a great computer but it would not be officially classed as a SuperComputer.
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.
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.
Given similar technology the supercomputer is faster, by definition.
San Diego Supercomputer Center was created in 1985.
Supercomputer is measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second)