High Performance Computing | MCQs

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Frontier Supercomputer of USA beat Japan`s Fugaku to become the world's fastest supercomputer in May 2022.

United States is the leader with 150 supercomputers

 China, with 134 supercomputers, 

Germany, with 36 supercomputers.

These are the only supercomputers used by Pakistan.

SH12-8-2023

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In May 2022, Frontier Supercomputer of USA beat Japan`s Fugaku to become world fastest supercomputer.

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A supercomputer is designed to perform trillions of instructions per second, making it the fastest type of computer for complex computations.

It is used in areas like climate modeling, scientific simulations, and cryptography.

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The Cray T90 series was the last of a line of vector processing supercomputers manufactured by Cray Research, Inc, superseding the Cray C90 series.

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Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation .

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.