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21 Cards in this Set
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reasons to have a supercomputer?
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• The National Security Agency to decipher secret codes
• Mercedes Benz to simulate car crashes • The National Weather Service to predict hurricanes • Boeing to simulate airplane structures • Merck to formulate medicines by analyzing chemical interactions • The Atomic Energy Commission to design nuclear bombs • The Italian police to examine crime scene videos • The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to analyze data from experiments |
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SIMD
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single input multipule data
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FLOPS
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floating point operations per second
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Cray 1
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first supercomputer... really fast
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1960-1961 fastest computer??
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LUNIVAC ARC
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Stretch
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IBM's early 1960's computer named the fastest over the LUNIVAC ARC
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CDC 6600
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has over 100,000 transistors and more than 100 miles of wiring
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CDC 6600
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toppled fastest computer in 1964 and 3,000,000 instructions per second
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cost of CDC 6600
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600 million dollars
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Seymour Cray
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computer genius who designed, with help, the Cray 1-3
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Seymour Cray- 1972
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launched his own firm in creating and designing supercomputers
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Cray 1
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fastest computer 1976 - 1982
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Cray 1
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10x faster than other supercomputers... costed 10 million dollars... drew 115 kw of energy, enough to power 10 homes
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Cray 1
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no longer than 3' segments of wire in the computer to minimize reaction time
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Cray 2
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released in 1985 and was 12 times faster than the cray 1 and sold for 12 to 17 million dollars
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Cray 3
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10 times faster than the Cray 2 but only one made completely and sold
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Power of Parallel
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super computer frames lined up in a row so the information has to travel a shorter distance and in one direction which increases speed
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ILLIAC
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costed 31 million dollars and never met it's true "super" potential
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personal supercomputer
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1985... had 32 - 128 panels
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Intel Touchstone Delta
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32 giga flops- 32,000,000,000,000 flops... helped with aids reaserch
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Roadrunner
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fastest computer as of 2008 which has 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one thousand trillion flops) if 6.8 billion people all used a hand held calculator it would take them 430 years to complete what the roadrunner does in 1 day
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