Supercomputers

[nanna]

Briefly explain what is Supercomputer?

[LeMarchand]

A Supercomputer is an especially powerful computer with the ability to fly and to leap tall buildings at a single bound. It will be faster than an express train (newer models will be faster than a speeding bullet), have X-Ray and heat vision along with various other unlikely powers. What ever you do, do not expose them to Kryptonite.

[Kerplunk]

Maybe the idea of the course is to get some IT ability j2buttonsw !! We can't all be as naturally gifted as you.

[ursula62]

Nanna,

Have you googled?

 

[rinkytink]

 

Basically it's just a very, very powerful computer - often with multiple parallel processors linked together. Here is a definition from FOLDOC:

supercomputer

A broad term for one of the fastest computers currently available. Such computers are typically used for number crunching including scientific simulations, (animated) graphics, analysis of geological data (e.g. in petrochemical prospecting), structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, physics, chemistry, electronic design, nuclear energy research and meteorology. Perhaps the best known supercomputer manufacturer is Cray Research.

A less serious definition, reported from about 1990 at The University Of New South Wales states that a supercomputer is any computer that can outperform IBM's current fastest, thus making it impossible for IBM to ever produce a supercomputer.

 

 

[Potatoman]

Is this your / someones homework?