What is a supercomputer?
A supercomputer is a high performance computer compared to a normal working computer. The performance of a supercomputer is usually measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS) or floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). Since 2017, there are supercomputers that can operate over 1017 FLOPS.
Supercomputer Introduced in 1960, the fastest supercomputer in decades was developed by Control Data Corporation (CDC), owned by Cray Research, and owned by Seymour Cray.
Types of supercomputers
Jaguar.
Titan.
Nebulae.
IBM Roadrunner.
K Computer.
Tianhe-I
Jugene
Jaguar.
Jaguar or OLCF-2 is a petroscale supercomputer developed by Cray at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Jaguar computer has a performance of over 1,750 teraFLOPS (1.75 petaFLOPS). Its 224,256 x86-based AMD Opteron processor core runs on a Linux version called the Cray Linux environment. Jaguar is a Cray XT5 system developed from the Cray XT4 supercomputer. In both November 2009 and June 2010, Jaguar named the TOP500 the fastest computer in the world, with a half-yearly list of the world's top 500 supercomputers. In late October 2010, the BBC reported that China's supercomputer Tianhe-1A had taken the Jaguar's second place, with more than 2.5 calculations per second. The Jaguar XT5 Supercomputer was in active use between 2005 and 2012. It was powered by 224,256 AMD Opteron processors. The operating system used was the Cray Linux environment, with a speed of over 1.7 petaflops. Jaguar is used to solve some of the most challenging scientific problems in the fields of climate modeling, renewable energy, physics, seismology, chemistry, astrophysics, fusion and combustion.
Titan
Titan or OLCF-3 is a supercomputer developed by Cray at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in various science projects. Titan is an upgrade from Jaguar, Oak Ridge's former supercomputer, which uses graphics processing units in addition to traditional core processing units. The cost is close to US $ 97 million .m Speed: 17.59 petaFLOPS (LINPACK); Is 27 petaFLOPS. The titan supercomputer is based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ranking 4th in the supercomputer TOP500 as of June 2017. Its size is 404 m2.
Nebulae
The Nebulae supercomputer is located at the National Supercomputer Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Built on a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel Xeon X5650 processor and Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPU. The speed is 2,984.3 TFlops / s. It uses the Linux operating system. According to the TOP500, in June 2010, Nebulae was ranked as the second most powerful computer in the world. ..This computer is highly configurable and can be used for many applications.
IBM Roadrunner
Roadrunner is a supercomputer developed by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, valued at about $ 100 million. The Roadrunner is designed for a maximum performance of 1.7 petaflops.
Ranked 10th in the TOP500: June 2011 by: 2.35 MW Requires Power of 1,000,000 TiB, Size 560 m2, 2,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs, 6,480 AMD Opteron dual to create -core processor, using InfiniBand.
K Computer
A supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, it is installed at the Rikan Advanced Computer Science Faculty in Kobe, Hygo Province, Japan and has a top speed of 10.51 petaflops (Rmax). In November 2018, it was ranked TOP500: 18 in the rankings .It uses the Linux operating system.
Tianhe-I
The Tianhe-I is a supercomputer with a Rmax 2.5 peta FLOPS speed. Located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and is one of the few PetScale supercomputers in the world. It has a memory capacity of 96 TB (98304 GB) .It is mainly used for oil exploration, aircraft simulation etc.
Jugene.
JUGENE performs 167 trillion (teraflop 167) mathematical calculations per second, making it the fastest supercomputer in Europe. It's IBM's new Blue Gene / P series model, with over 65,000 processors.
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