SUPER COMPUTER

Presented By: Asad Ikhlaq

Presented To: Mam Mufassara Naz
Roll Number: F20BA121
Date: 20-2-2021
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WHAT IS SUPER COMPUTER

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.
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CURRENT SUPER COMPUTER IN WORLD

FUGAKU (JAPAN) SUMMIT (USA)

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FIRST SUPER COMPUTER

CD-6600
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HISTORY
• 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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MEASUREMENT OF SPEED
Supercomputers speed are measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS) in
units of
 megaflops (MFLOPS)
 gigaflops (GFLOPS)
 teraflops (TFLOPS)
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HARDWARE OF SUPERCOMPUTER
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OPERATING SYSTEM
• 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.
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CHALLENGES
• 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 
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KEY FEATURES Large Number

of Processing
unit

• Large Number of Processing unit Thermal

Massive Ram
Type Memory
Management
• Massive Ram Type Memory Modules

Modules
• High speed connection nodes Features of
Super
• High Speed I/O and File System Computer
• Specialized Software and Support
• Thermal Management Specialized
Software and
High speed
connection
Support nodes

High Speed I/O

and File System
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TYPES OF SUPERCOMPUTERS
The supercomputer has to divide into three categories such as Vector processing machines,
tightly connected cluster computer and in finally commodity computer.
• Vector processing machines: This machine was invented in 1980 to 1990s. In which
arrange the all processor in the array form, and its CPU is capable to execute all huge
mathematically operations in a few time.
• Tightly connected cluster computer: In these types of system, connect all groups of
computers and assigned the task to all group equally so the reason of this clustering
enhanced the speed of computer. There are four types of cluster like as Director-based
clusters, Two-node clusters, Multi-node clusters, and massively parallel clusters.
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TYPES OF SUPERCOMPUTERS (CONT.)

• Commodity Cluster: In this system, high-bandwidth low-latency local area networks
were interconnected by the Commodity computer.
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EXAMPLES OF SUPER COMPUTER

1. Titan
2. IBM Sequoia
3. K Computer
4. Tianhe-I
5. Jaguar
6. IBM Roadrunner
7. NEBULAE
8. KRAKEN
9. PLEIADES
10. JUGENE
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APPLICATION OF SUPERCOMPUTERS
Military and Defense Missions:
Supercomputing help to provide virtual testing for nuclear explosion and weapon ballistics.
Climate Patterns:
Supercomputer application is able to study and understand climate patterns.
Financial Market Place:
Supercomputer plays vital role in the real financial success in the emerging online currency
world such as bit coin and stock market.
Smog Control System:
Scientists use supercomputers in own laboratory for predicting the fog and other pollution
level on the particular areas, and then take final step to prevent them.
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