SUPERCOMPUTERS

• THE BIG DADDY OF ALL COMPUTERS ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF SPEED OF CALCULATIONS.
• USAGE
• quantum physics,
• Ah, its heavy stuff.
• weather forecasting,
• u wanna know from where the weather man gets his data?
• climate research,
• Can we make the earth cool down?  i know the answer, why use a super comp
• molecular modeling  
• what are these things actually gonna look like when scaled to life scale.
• physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion).
• U can see how aeroplanes react to the wind conditions,or see what the hell happens when two nuclei comes together. Its heavy stuff.
• FATHER OF SUPER COMPUTER -SEYMOUR CRAY.
•  THE FIRST SCs WERE JUST FAST COMPUTERS, PROVIDING MORE SPEED THAN THE ONES AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET.(FAST SCALAR PROCESSORS)
• BUT, THEN, RESEARCH IS WENT TOWARDS VECTOR PROCESSORS.
• MAN IS ALWAYS GREEDY, SO HE USED VECTOR PROCESSORS IN PARALLEL.
•  RECENTLY, HE'S TURNED HIS PASSION TO  MASSIVE PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS( WITH 1000s OF ORDINARY CPUs)
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• BIG NAMES IN SUPERCOMPUTER BUSINESS
• NUDT
• Tianhe-1A - NUDT TH MPP, X5670 2.93Ghz 6C, NVIDIA GPU, FT-1000 8C( THE FASTEST SUPER COMP ON EARTH)
• CRAY
•  Jaguar - Cray XT5 QC 2.3 GHz
• XT5
• IBM
• Roadrunner -  
• JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution
• SUN MICROSYSTEMS
• Ranger  -