Prepared by:

Karan Jani – Thakur Polytechnic

Ritik Dhedia – Thakur Polytechnic
 A supercomputer is a computer with great
speed and memory. This kind of computer
can do jobs faster than any other computer
of its generation. They are usually
thousands of times faster than ordinary
personal computers made at that time.
 Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s
and were designed by Seymour Cray at Control
Data Corporation (CDC), which led the market
into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own
company, Cray Research.
 He then took the supercomputer market with his
new designs, holding the top spot in
supercomputing for five years (1985–1990).
 Today, supercomputers are typically designs and
produced by traditional companies such as Cray.
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Supercomputers speed are measured in
floating point operations per second
(FLOPS) in units of :
 megaflops (MFLOPS)
 gigaflops (GFLOPS)
 teraflops (TFLOPS)
Used for solving high calculation and intensive
tasks like:
 Weather forecasting
 Analysis of data and information
 Astronomical Observation
 Integrate design of engineering products
 For solving large input scientific
calculations and advanced scientific
problems.
Super Computer of Super computer of
1970s. 1990s.
A multi- processor computers has two or
more CPU’s
 The CPU shares the different parts of
computers like memory, disk system, bus
etc.
 Each processor is capable of running
different program simultaneously(true
multi-tasking)
 Most supercomputers run on a Linux or
Unix operating system, as these operating
systems are extremely flexible, stable,
and efficient.
 Supercomputers typically have multiple
processors and a variety of other
technological tricks to ensure that they
run smoothly.
 Generates large amount of heat.
 The speed of data transfer will limit the
super computer’s performance.
 Supercomputer’s consume and produce
massive amount of data in a very short
period of time .
 RANK NO 1 - JAGUAR
SUPERCOMPUTER
 RANK NO 2- ROAD RUNNER

 RANK NO3- TENNESSEE’s

KRAKEN
 Oak Ridge ‘Jaguar’
 High speed(1.759 Petaflop)
 Great performance
 High data transfer rate(284GB/s)
 High system memory(362TB)
 Required large area
 Very costly($19.5million)
 Required more electricity
 Large number of chips(37,376 chips)
 Aspen Systems
 SGI
 IBM
 Cray Research
 Compaq
 Hewlett-Packard
 Thinking Machines
 Cray Computer Corporation
 Control Data Corporation
 Supercomputing has played, and continues to
play, an essential role in national security and
in scientific discovery.
 The ability to address important scientific and
engineering challenges depends on continued
investments in supercomputing.
 Moreover, the increasing size and complexity
of new applications will require the continued
evolution of supercomputing for the
foreseeable future.
 Thank
you