Post by cyber4eva on Nov 1, 2020 14:41:55 GMT
The most powerful computers of the day have typically been called supercomputers. They have historically been very expensive and their use limited to high-priority computations for government-sponsored research, such as nuclear simulations and weather modeling. Today, many of the computational techniques of early supercomputers are in common use in PCs. On the other hand, the design of costly, special-purpose processors for supercomputers has been supplanted by the use of large arrays of commodity processors (from several dozen to over 8,000) operating in parallel over a high-speed communications network.
WRITTEN BY William Morton Pottenger, research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.
Last Updated: Sep 22, 2020
WRITTEN BY William Morton Pottenger, research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.
Last Updated: Sep 22, 2020
