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  2. List of fictional computers - Wikipedia

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    I.R.I.S., the super computer in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction on the Kreeli comet (2007) Mendicant Bias, an intelligence-gathering AI created by the extinct Forerunner race during their war with the all-consuming Flood parasite, as revealed in Halo 3. Its purpose was to observe the Flood in order to determine the best way to ...

  3. List of fastest computers - Wikipedia

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    K computer: 10.51 PFLOPS* [33] 2012 United States: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: IBM: Sequoia (Blue Gene/Q) 16.32 PFLOPS* [34] Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Cray: Titan: 17.59 PFLOPS* [35] 2013 China: National Supercomputing Center of Guangzhou: National University of Defense Technology: Tianhe-2: 33.86 PFLOPS* [36] 2016 National ...

  4. Supercomputer - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. Type of extremely powerful computer For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). The IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected by a high ...

  5. TOP500 - Wikipedia

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    The computer is an exaflop computer, but was not submitted to the TOP500 list; the first exaflop machine submitted to the TOP500 list was Frontier. Analysts suspected that the reason the NSCQ did not submit what would otherwise have been the world's first exascale supercomputer was to avoid inflaming political sentiments and fears within the ...

  6. Deucalion (supercomputer) - Wikipedia

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    Deucalion is a supercomputer located at the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MAAC) in Guimarães, Portugal.It was inaugurated in September 2023 and is co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and Portugal's Foundation for Science and Technology.

  7. History of supercomputing - Wikipedia

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    Mu (the name of the Greek letter μ) is a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting a factor of 10 −6 (one millionth). At the end of 1958, Ferranti agreed to collaborate with Manchester University on the project, and the computer was shortly afterwards renamed Atlas, with the joint venture under the control of Tom Kilburn.

  8. Multivac - Wikipedia

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    Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...

  9. Hypercomputation - Wikipedia

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    A system granted knowledge of the uncomputable, oracular Chaitin's constant (a number with an infinite sequence of digits that encode the solution to the halting problem) as an input can solve a large number of useful undecidable problems; a system granted an uncomputable random-number generator as an input can create random uncomputable functions, but is generally not believed to be able to ...