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NAME : SHERAZ ALI

supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest
operational rate for computers. Traditionally, supercomputers have been used for
scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a
great amount of computation (or both).

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·0 NEBULAE, China. ...

·1 ROADRUNNER, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

·2 KRAKEN, National Institute for Computational Sciences.

·3 JUGENE, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany.

·4 PLEIADES, NASA Ames Research Center.

·5 TIANHE-1, ChinaGH

Difference between min ,micro and main frame computer

MIni computers

1. A minicomputer is a type of computer that possesses most of the

features and capabilities of a large computer but is smaller in physical
size.

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3. A minicomputer fills the space between the mainframe and

microcomputer, and is smaller than the former but larger than the
 latter. Minicomputers are mainly used as small or mid-range servers
operating business and scientific applications. A minicomputer may
also be called a mid-range computer.

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5. Minicomputers may contain one or more processors, support

multiprocessing and tasking, and are generally resilient to high
workloads.

Micro computers

A compact and relatively inexpensive computer,

with less capacity and capability than a minicomputer,

consisting of a microprocessor and other components of a computer,

miniaturized where possible: used in small business, by hobbyists, etc.

Mainframe computers
Modern mainframe design is characterized less by raw computational speed and more
by:

6. Redundant internal engineering resulting in high reliability and security

7. Extensive input-output facilities with the ability to offload to separate engines

8. Strict backward compatibility with older software

9. High hardware and computational utilization rates through virtualization to

support massive throughput.

10. Hot-swapping of hardware, such as processors and memory