Supercomputer

  Supercomputers What is Supercomputer? A supercomputer is a computer that performs at a higher level than a general-purpose computer. A supercomputer's performance is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) rather than million instructions per second (MIPS). Supercomputers are massive computers with tens of thousands of processors that can do billions or trillions of calculations per second. Some supercomputers have the ability to perform up to 100 quadrillion FLOPS. Supercomputers are useful for real-time applications because information travels quickly between processors in comparison to dispersed computing systems. Supercomputers are used for Quantum physics, weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration, molecular modelling, physical simulations, aerodynamics, nuclear fusion research, and cryptoanalysis are just some of the data-intensive and computation-intensive scientific and engineering applications. To boost the speed of early supercomputers, custom made...