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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. 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…

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History

Special purpose supercomputers

Energy usage and heat management

Software and system management

Distributed supercomputing

High-performance computing clouds

Performance measurement

Applications

Development and trends

In fiction

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Supercomputer

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Supercomputer

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related to history · 26
Supercomputer → Also, Atlas, Customers, Development Center, England, Ferranti, France, Harvest, He, IBM, In, It, LARC, Livermore Atomic Research Computer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Manchester, Manchester University, Stretch, The, The Atlas
related to Performance metrics · 23
Supercomputer → An EFLOPS, Brehm, Bruhwiler, EFLOPS, Exascale, FLOPS, However, I/O, In, Linpack, LU, MIPS, No, Petascale, PFLOPS, Rmax, Rpeak, SI, TFLOPS, The FLOPS
related to Massively parallel designs · 20
Supercomputer → Another, But, CM, CM-5, Connection Machine, Cray, Cray-1's, GFLOPS, However, If, ILLIAC IV, In, MFLOPS, MIT, Several, The, The CM-1, The ILLIAC's, This, Two
related to In fiction · 15
Supercomputer → AM, Colossus, Deep Thought, DNA, Examples, GLaDOS, HAL, Jurassic Park, Multivac, SHODAN, The Evitable Conflict, The Machine Stops, Thinking Machines, Vulcan's Hammer, WOPR
related to Software tools and message passing · 14
Supercomputer → APIs, Beowulf, CPUs, CUDA, GPGPUs, In, MPI, OpenCL, OpenMP, PVM, Significant, Software, The, VTL
related to Development and trends · 12
Supercomputer → China, DeBenedictis, Erik, European Union, FLOPS, In, Many Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Sandia National Laboratories, Such, The, United States
related to External links · 11
Supercomputer → An Initial Effort, Biomolecular Engineering Publications, Capture, Chemical, Economic, Environmental, Marshall, McDonnell, Other Works, Societal Impacts, Supercomputer Design
related to Special purpose supercomputers · 11
Supercomputer → ASICs, Belle, Deep Blue, Deep Crack, DES, Examples, FPGA, Gravity Pipe, Hydra, MDGRAPE-3, This
related to The TOP500 list · 10
Supercomputer → In, June, Lenovo, LINPACK, Peak, Rmax, Since, The, This, TOP500
has application · 9
Supercomputer → ASCI, CDC Cyber, Cray-1, EFF DES, In, Moving, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, The, Tianhe-1A

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supercomputers computing computer processors performance system used systems supercomputing parallel power one computers operating processing many using data research flops

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Supercomputeris atype of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer0.90text
Supercomputeris amassively parallel processing computer capable of many billions of arithmetic operations per second.In 19820.90text
Tianhe-Iinstance ofa number of petaFLOPS supercomputers0.80text
Nebulae have started to rely on theminstance ofa number of petaFLOPS supercomputers0.80text
SPARC-based designsinstance ofother systems such as the K computer continue to use conventional processors0.80text
the overall applicability of GPGPUs in general-purpose high-performance computing applications has been the subject of debateinstance ofother systems such as the K computer continue to use conventional processors0.80text
in that while a GPGPU may be tuned to score well on specific benchmarksinstance ofother systems such as the K computer continue to use conventional processors0.80text
its overall applicability to everyday algorithms may be limited unless significant effort is spent to tune the application to itinstance ofother systems such as the K computer continue to use conventional processors0.80text
Linux.Since modern massively parallel supercomputers typically separate computations from other services by using multiple types of nodesinstance ofthe trend has been to move away from in-house operating systems to the adaptation of generic software0.80text
they usually run different operating systems on different nodesinstance ofthe trend has been to move away from in-house operating systems to the adaptation of generic software0.80text
e.g. using a smallinstance ofthe trend has been to move away from in-house operating systems to the adaptation of generic software0.80text
efficient lightweight kernel such as CNK or CNL on compute nodesinstance ofthe trend has been to move away from in-house operating systems to the adaptation of generic software0.80text

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