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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 March 2025. Type of extremely powerful computer For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). The Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory (pictured 2007) runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected by a ...
A supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Angela Yang Computing Facility in Lemont, Illinois, USA. These are mainly used for scientific calculations or simulations and processing big data with high precission. [2] Mainframe computer [1] [3] Supercomputer [4] Minisupercomputer
Share of processor families in TOP500 supercomputers by year [needs update]. As of June 2022, all supercomputers on TOP500 are 64-bit supercomputers, mostly based on CPUs with the x86-64 instruction set architecture, 384 of which are Intel EMT64-based and 101 of which are AMD AMD64-based, with the latter including the top eight supercomputers. 15 other supercomputers are all based on RISC ...
The supercomputer is also known as Big Mac or Terascale Cluster. System X ran at 12.25 Teraflops, (20.24 peak), and was ranked #3 on November 16, 2003 [ 4 ] and #280 in the July 2008 edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. [ 5 ]
This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, [1] is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
Elon Musk’s just fired up Colossus—the world’s largest Nvidia GPU supercomputer built in just three months from start to finish Christiaan Hetzner Updated September 4, 2024 at 4:40 PM
As of November 2024, Frontier is the second fastest supercomputer in the world. It is based on the Cray EX and is the successor to Summit (OLCF-4). Frontier achieved an Rmax of 1.102 exaFLOPS , which is 1.102 quintillion floating-point operations per second, using AMD CPUs and GPUs .