Blog Entry 4: Supercomputers

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

     Ans: Seymour Cray invented the Cray Supercomputer

2.      In what year?

      Ans: He invented it in 1975

3.      How many flops did the Cray 1 have? Add an image of a Cray 1.

     Ans: It had  1 GFLOPs. This is the Image

4.      When did the Cray 2 come out? How Many flops?

      Ans: It came out in 1985, It had 1.9 GFLOPs.

5.      What is a Kiloflops?    

      Ans: (A MegaFlops is a million flops) 1 000 flops.

6.      How much is a Gigaflops?

     Ans:A Gigaflop is 1 billion flops

7.  What is SETI

      Ans: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence

8. Go here  How is this scientist going to use the power of a supercomputer? List 2 pros and a 2 cons of this system

     This scientist uses the processing power of many regular computers to equal the power of a supercomputer. This idea is being used to do medical calculations. It is free and easy to participate in, but computers running for that long could be damaged, and power of this clustered computer may vary depending on the amount of computers donating.

10.  What is the fastest Supercomputer today Sept , 2017

     Ans: The Fastest Supercomputer is Japan, 130 PFLOPS.

12. How fast is SUMMIT Supercomputer? What will it be used for?

     Ans: The SUMMIT can manage 40 TFLOPS without GPU boost, but with it, it will manage 300 PFLOPS. It will be used for calculations regarding climate change, biology and medicine.

11. Subscribe to a google alert for the latest Supercomputer.

    Ans: hahahaha…. U funny!