Tuesday, May 10, 2011

What is a Supercomputer

Tianhe-1A system as per October 2010, fastest supercomputer in the world is located the at National University of Defense Technology with more than 21000 computers, it boasts a speed of 2.507 petaflops, over 30% faster than the world's next fastest computer, Cray XT5 "Jaguar" system.
This will be an equivalent to 2 million laptops (and Roadrunner is comparable nearly 100,000 laptops). It is slated for deployment in 2011.The Sequoia will be powered by 1.6 million cores (specific 45-nanometer chips in development) and 1.6 petabytes of memory.

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