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A supercomputer is a computer with a high-level computational capacity compared to a general-purpose computer. Performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). As of 2015, there are supercomputers which can perform up to quadrillions of FLOPS
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially, and for decades primarily, by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of “off-the-shelf” processors were the norm. Since its introduction in June 2013, China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer is currently the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS (PFLOPS), or 33.86 quadrillions of FLOPS.
Supercomputers play an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulations of the early moments of the universe, airplane and spacecraft aerodynamics, the detonation of nuclear weapons, and nuclear fusion). Throughout their history, they have been essential in the field of cryptanalysis.
Interesting facts on Supercomputing in Linux
• Top 10 fastest super computers in the world, runs on Linux.
• IBM Sequoia, the worlds fastest supercomputer when launched in 2011, Runs on RHEL
• US and China Holds for the major share of super Computers in the world
• India is having 11 super Computers in the top 500 supercomputers.
• Ranging from 96 to 397
• First super Computer of India – Param 8000 built in 1991; Indegenously Built.
• India plans to build a super computer with processing power in Exa flop range
• India will be Building National Super Computing Grid; a network of 73 super computers across various
centres connected by a High-speed Network.
Fastest Super Computers in the world
Super Computers in Top 500 list
Indian super computers
