a moth was smashed in a relay (blocking current flow, not shorting anything) of the Harvard Mark II (a very slow electromechanical computer, nowhere near a supercomputer).actually the term bug had been in use for decades for machine malfunctions.
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.
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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!
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yes, they use it to monitor your behavior while you sleep
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i think latest supercomputer is "road runner".
Another name for a supercomputer is called a NAP( Network Access Point)
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.
Given similar technology the supercomputer is faster, by definition.
Supercomputer is measured in "FLOPS" (FLoating Point Operations Per Second)