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Super High Performance Computers

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research.He then took over the supercomputer market with his new designs, holding the top spot in supercomputing for five years (1985–1990).

Supercomputers using custom CPUs traditionally gained their speed over conventional computers through the use of innovative designs that allow them to perform many tasks in parallel, as well as complex detail engineering. They tend to be specialized for certain types of computation, usually numerical calculations, and perform poorly at more general computing tasks. Their memory hierarchy is very carefully designed to ensure the processor is kept fed with data and instructions at all times — in fact, much of the performance difference between slower computers and supercomputers is due to the memory hierarchy. Their I/O systems tend to be designed to support high bandwidth, with latency less of an issue, because supercomputers are not used for transaction processing. Read More Here

and the winner is...!!!

System Name :Roadrunner
System Family: IBM Cluster
System Model :BladeCenter QS22 Cluster
Computer: BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz
Vendor: IBM
Application area: Not Specified
Installation Year: 2008
Operating System: Linux
Interconnect: Infiniband
Processor :PowerXCell 8i 3200 MHz (12.8 GFlops)
Cores :129600
Rmax(GFlops): 1105000
Rpeak(GFlops): 1456704
Nmax: 2329599
Nhalf :0

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