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A supercomputer is an extremely high speed computer. Usually a very powerful mainframe.

A supercomputer is an extremely high speed computer, usually made for things like simulating the inside of a sun, simulating the inside of an atomic bomb, molecular modelling, etc.

A brief way to describe is is an extremely powerful mainframe.

A list of the top 500 supercomputers can be found here.

POssibly other related tags are: and

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What kind of RAM do supercomputers use?

I was reading an article about one of the worlds fastest computers and this is one of the lines which interested me: To mimic this relatively minuscule amount of brainpower, researchers used the Fujitsu K to connect a total of 1.73 billion virtual…
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How much ahead of normal PCs are super computers?

I'm just wondering given the rapid development in computing power, how many years ahead of say a $2000 PC are the world's fastest super computers. So for example, how many years ago, would a super computer first had the same processing speed as…
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How to build a supercomputer by linking common PCs on a network?

Fellows, I have several computers, some new, some old ( I collect them, since my first one, which has 2Kbytes of RAM, from 1979 ). The collection is getting huge, but the purpose of this question is related to the fact that I always loved the power…
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Password entropy of 109; crackable?

According to my calculations, it would take a computer about 21 trillion years to cycle through a list of 109-bit passwords at one trillion guesses per second. In other words, not crackable until computer technology takes some serious…
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Shelves for super computing cluster

So I am currently running a small project with a few friends and we require a 2 Teraflop super computing cluster we have gathered all the money for this project mainly from donations and we need to know where we would find racks similar to the one…
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Why some supercomputers use ARM processors?

Why some supercomputers use ARM cpus? For example the world's most powerful supercomputer: Fugaku. It uses ARM cpus. x86 cpus can process more complex stuff right?
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Are there any modern non-cluster supercomputers?

There used to be big, powerful single machine supercomputers like Cray. Now it seems that mostly supercomputing is done on big clusters of Linux machines. What is the reason for this change? For example, were there problems in getting the single…
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Difference between Compute Node and Compute Cluster

I have to give a presentation on Super Computing and I came across this pdf http://yuva.cdac.in/YuvaII/YUVA_2%20leaflet.pdf. As mentioned in page 2 what is the difference between Computer Node and Compute Cluster. Thanks
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