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SUPER COMPUTER
- The fastest
- Very expensive & specialized for mathematical calculations.
- Eg: weather forecasting
- Uses: animated graphics, nuclear energy research and petroleum exploration.
Characteristics
- Powerful & Expensive
- Dedicated to one purpose - weather, satellites, military
- Used by large governments or very large companies
- Can be used by thousands of people at the same time
- Very large - fill rooms
One of the super computers IBM's Blue Gene/L with sixteen racks performs 70.7 trillion calculations per second
As per wikipedia, The Sunway TaihuLight (Chinese: 神威·太湖之光, Shénwēi·tàihú zhī guāng) is a Chinese supercomputer which, as of November 2017, is the fastest supercomputer in the world,