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    Unit 1, Lesson 1 Activity 2

    SUPERCOMPUTERS
    Read the first section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
    What is a supercomputer? Image result for what is a super computer?
    Examples of special-purpose supercomputers include Belle,
    Deep Blue, and Hydra for playing chess, Gravity Pipe for
    astrophysics,

    What does FLOPS stand for? The results of the benchmark are measured in flops which
    stands for floating point operations per second.

    Since 2017, there are supercomputers there are supercomputers which can perform over 1017
    which can perform over… FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or
    100 PFLOPS). Since November 2017, all of the world's
    fastest 500 supercomputers run Linux-based operating
    systems.

    Who is Cray? Origin: United States. Currently based in Los Angeles, CRAY
    (Cheney Ray) started her career performing as an opener on
    Anna .

    List some things that supercomputers are Supercomputers are used for data-intensive and computation-
    used for: heavy scientific and engineering purposes such as quantum
    mechanics, weather forecasting, oil and gas

    Videos:
    Watch: SuperComputers As Fast as Possible

    Adichie gave several examples of the single story in action:


    Watch: The single story of Africa as a place of catastrophe; the single
    What makes a SuperComputer “Super”? story of Mexicans as “abject immigrants;” the single story of
    poor people “as [nothing] else but poor.
    As you are watching, make a list of terms
    that you have heard for the first time or know
    little about.

    Google: What is Moore’s Law? Moore's Law has been predicting the exponential growth of
    Why do people believe this theory is computing power for 50+ years. Often declared dead, it's still
    irrelevant with today’s technology? refusing to die. Moore's Law has been predicting the
    exponential growth of computing power for over .

    Google: What is AI? (AI)? Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human


    intelligence processes by machines, especially computer
    systems

    Go to this site and look for answers to the questions below:


    https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2022/06/
    Look at TOP 10 Sites for June 2022
    What nation has the highest rated supercomputer USA has by far the most performance share of the
    currently? list (almost half), while China currently leads the list
    in number of systems with 173 supercomputers, with
    the USA not far behind

    Scroll down and look at the top 10 supercomputers. Top 10 supercomputers


    What are the brands of supercomputers that you Fugaku, Japan. Built by Fujitsu, Fugaku is installed at
    recognize? the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-
    CCS) in Kobe, Japan. ...
    Summit, U.S. ...
    Sierra, U.S. ...

    How many supercomputers does the United States Sunway TaihuLight, China. ...
    have in the top 10? Selene, U.S. ...
    Tianhe-2A, China. ...
    JUWELS Booster Module, Germany. ...
    HPC5, Italy.
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