Supercomputers

SUPER
COMPUTERS
BY:-
DEBADATTA GADANAYAK
BSC. ITM, 2ND YEAR
RAVENSHAW UNIVERSITY

OVERVIEW
 What is a Supercomputer?
 Speed of Supercomputers
 Uses of Supercomputers
 Challenges to supercomputers
 Fastest Supercomputer
 Supercomputers in India
 Conclusion

What is a Supercomputer?
A supercomputer is a type of computer that has
the architecture, resources and components to
achieve massive computing power. Today's
supercomputers consists of tens of thousands of
processors that are able to perform billions and
trillions of calculations or computations per
second.

• Supercomputer computational power
is rated in FLOPS (Floating Point
Operations Per Second).
• The first commercially available
supercomputers reached speeds of 10
to 100 million FLOPS. The next
generation of supercomputers is
predicted to break the petaflop level.
• This would represent computing power
more than 1,000 times faster than a
teraflop machine.
Speed of Supercomputer

USE
S
DATA
MINING
PREDITING
CLIMATE
CHANGE
INTELLIGENCE
AGENCIES
NUCLEAR
WEAPON
TESTING
Uses Of Supercomputer

CHALLENGES
GENERATESHUGE
AMOUNT OF
HEAT
DATA
TRANSMISSION
SPEED LIMITS THE
PERFORMANCE
CONSUMES AND
PRODUCES HUGE
AMOUNT OF DATA
IN SHORT TIME
CONSUMES
HUGE AMOUNT
OF ELECTRICITY
Challenges To Supercomputer

Summit by IBM
 Cores: 2,00,000 cores
 Peak Performance: 200 Petaflops
 Power: 13 megawatts
 Operating System : Red
Hat Linux
 Storage: 250 Petabyte
Fastest Supercomputer

Aaditya: Indian Institute of
Tropical Meteorology, Pune, has a
machine with a theoretical peak of
790.7 teraflop/s, called Aaditya,
which is used for climate research
and operational forecasting.
• It ranked 36th among the world's
top 500 supercomputers.
Supercomputers In India

PARAM Yuva II :This supercomputer
was made by Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing in a period of three
months, at a cost of ₹160 million (US$2
million). It performs at a peak of 524
teraflop/s.
Param Yuva II will be used for research in
space, bioinformatics, weather forecasting,
seismic data analysis, scientific data
processing and pharmaceutical development.
Supercomputers In India

Conclusion
As you can see, supercomputers are helpful in
many ways . They have numerous benefits and
uses, and they are very different from a regular
computer . Supercomputers have a long history,
and will probably advance in the future.
Super computers of today are the general
purpose computers of tomorrow

Supercomputers

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