• Question: what is supercomputer?

    Asked by ayesha678 to Austin, Kirsty, Nicola, Nike, Sarah on 18 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by adilmohammed.
    • Photo: Kirsty Ross

      Kirsty Ross answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      A supercomputer is a computer that is running at the current processing limits. Back when computers were invented, these computers worked with a few processors and took up entire rooms! Now they (still) take up entire rooms, but can contain thousands of processors in either a computer cluster, or by using the unused power of computers around the world (distributed). Nike has probably got a better handle on this, but the Wiki page is rather good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer)

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