Friday, 30 September 2016

What is a Supercomputer?

Supercomputers!

Scavenger Hunt

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Who invented the Cray Supercomputer? (First & last name please)


 Seymour Cray invented the Cray supercomputer.


In what year?


 The first cray supercomputer was installed Los Alamos National Labratory in 1976.


What is a FLOPS




 A FLOPS stands for Floating-point Operations per Second. It is unit of computer speed, equal to one operation per second.


How many flops did the Cray 1 have?


 The Cray 1 supercomputer had 80 Million FLOPS.


When did the Cray 2 come out?
 The Cray 2 came out on 1985.


What is a Kiloflops?
 A Kiloflop is 1 thousand FLOPS


A MegaFlops?
 A Megaflops is 1 million FLOPS


How much is a Gigaflops?
 A Gigaflops is 1 billion FLOPS


How much is a teraflops?
 A Teraflops is 1 Trillion FLOPS


How much is a petaflops?
 A Petaflops is 1 quadrillion FLOPS


What’s next in the flops pattern?
 The next FLOPS pattern is Exaflops which is 1 quintillion FLOPS


What is the name and FLOPS of
the fastest Supercomputer of today?




 The fastest supercomputer today is the Sunway Taihulight supercomputer which runs at 93 Petaflops.


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