Super Computer
A supercomputer is a type of computer machine that has the architecture, resources and components to achieve massive computing power. Currently supercomputers with thousands of processors are capable of performing trillions of calculations per second.
Supercomputers have a vast performance as compared to general-purpose computers because of their architectural and operational model which relies on parallel processing. The primary purpose to design a supercomputer was to be used in large scale organizations where more computing power is required.
It has a power to execute many processes simultaneously on thousand of processors, because these types of processors can execute billions and trillion of instructions per seconds, It's computing performance matrix is FLOPS (i.e. floating-point operations per second). These types of supercomputers are more expensive. They can range between 5 lakh dollars to 200 million dollars.
Types Of Super Computer
There are various types of Supercomputers...
- Titan
- IBM Sequoia
- K Computer
- Tianhe-I
- Jaguar
- IBM Roadrunner
- NEBULAE
- KRAKEN
- PLEIADES
- JUGENE
Application Of Super Computer
There are many application areas of supercomputer such as -
Biology Areas
Mostly, supercomputer used to recognize various diseases, and provide the assistance for producing good results for brain injuries and other blood flow issues in your body.
Military and Defense Missions
Supercomputing helps to provide virtual testing for nuclear weapon such as explosion, fission bombs, atomic bombs, ballistics etc.
Climate Patterns
Supercomputer applications are able to study and understand climate patterns.
Airlines Industry
In the airlines industry supercomputer are used to design flight's simulators for novice pilots which helps to trained them.
Weather Forecasting
To gather the information related to weather forecasting, supercomputer run in the NOAA’s system, NOAA stands for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA systems are able to execute all types of simple or complex logically instructions.
Scientific Research Areas
Weather and Science Research areas totally depends on the supercomputer because they analyzing data from the exploring solar system, satellites that orbits around the Earth, and other area such as nuclear research.
Advance database (Data Mining)
Some large scale multi-national companies needs the supercomputer for extracting useful information from data storage house or Big Data. Such as an insurance companies.
Financial Market Place
Supercomputer plays a important role in the real financial success of the world's emerging online currency such as bit coin and stock exchange.
Characteristics of Super Computer
- These types of computers are able to solve large amount of calculations as well as complicated calculations.
- Multiple users are capable to access supercomputer at the same time.
- Any ordinary users can not purchase super computer because it's highly expensive.
- Used in a special areas where need to high processing is required.
- Having huge storage capacity.
