Supercomputers

Supercomputer at NASA 

Supercomputers, introduced in the 1960s, are computers with very high speeds of processing capacity and used for a range of calculation-intensive such as weather forecasting, climate research, computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds and physical simulations. The term "Super Computing" was first used in the New York World in 1929 to refer to large custom-built tabulators that IBM had made for Columbia University. As of November 2012, the Cray Titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world.

1. Who was father of supercomputer?

Ans: Seymour Roger Cray.

2. Name the Supercomputer which is generally considered as first Supercomputer. In which year it was released?

Ans: CDC 6600. It was released in 1964.

3. Name one Supercomputer Operating System.

Ans: Linux.

4. What was Intel i860?

Ans: The Intel i860 was a RISC microprocessor from Intel, first released in 1989.

5. The speed of a Supercomputer is generally measured in ………………

Ans: FLOPS ((FLoating Point Operations Per Second).

6. Name the Chinese supercomputer which was developed by Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT).

Intel i860

Ans: Tianhe-I.

7. What is the memory space of TITAN Supercomputer?

Ans: 710 TB (598 TB CPU and 112 TB GPU).

8. Name one petaflop supercomputer other than Tianhe-I.

Ans: Nebula.

9. On February 10, 1996, supercomputer Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Who was the famous chess player?

Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue

Ans: Garry Kasparov.

10. Who manufactured K- Computer? Which country it belongs to?

Blue Gene/L

Ans: Fujitsu. Japan.

11. Name the designer of Cray X-MP.

Ans: Steve Chen.

12. Name any two Indian supercomputers.

Ans: SAGA-220 and Virgo.

13. Computational Research Laboratories built a Indian supercomputer with technical assistance and whose hardware was provided by Hewlett-Packard. Name the Supercomputer.

Ans: EKA

PARAM

14. What was the name of the first supercomputer of India?

Ans: PARAM 8000.

15. What was name of the supercomputer that was originally composed of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5 computers and was assembled by Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Computing facility?

Ans: System X (pronounced "System Ten").