Supercomputer
Supercomputer :
(ICT) A term used to describe an extremely fast and powerful computer. A 'supercomputer' is often made up of dozens of cabinets often taking up an entire floor of a building. It also draws an enormous amount of power compared to a mainframe - 1 MegaWatt is not unusual! Their calculation speeds are measured in 'Teraflops' that is a million, million calculations per second. As of 2007 the most powerful supercomputer on Earth is called BlueGene/L from IBM. It has a speed of 360 Teraflops and is used to simulate nuclear weapons. It has 65 thousand CPU chips, all running together
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