Disadvantages Of High Performance Computing

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Just speak the word supercomputer to someone and they by default think of very complicated machines solving difficult problems no one really knows. Maybe they think of some type of blinking lights and some super intelligence that can beat humans at chess or could explain the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. At first people thought that supercomputing was for the scientists and engineers who needed to calculate numbers as fast as possible. But things have changed today. The custom supercomputer of before has given way to a new level of supercomputing,or what is now known as High Performance Computing. The HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING world is now open for everyone because the cost is now lower than before. …show more content…

According to IDC, the total HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING market was $10 billion in 2007 and is expected to hit $11.7 billion around 2012.
System Size Market Share
Supercomputers computers(Over $500K) $2.7Billion
Technical Divisional computers ($250K–$500K) $1.6Billion
Technical Departmentalcomputers ($100K–$250K) $3.4Billion
Technical Workgroup computers (under $100K) $2.4Billion

Successful HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING applications have many industrial uses, government uses, and academic sectors uses. The following is a list of main areas where HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING has a is being used and has a good presence-
Bio-sciences: Discoverry of drugs, detection and prevention of diseases
Government labs: Basic research of University Weather forecasting: Modelling of the earth
Computer aided engineering : Automotive design, transportation, , mechanical designs.
Chemical engineering: Various process and molecular design
Economics/financial: management of portfolio, automated trading. Electronic design: Electronic component design and verification of Geosciences and geo-engineering: Oil and gas explorating

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In March 2015, the Indian government has given permission to a seven-year supercomputing program worth Rs. 4,500-crore.

Some interesting features and facts of supercomputers

Recreation of the Big Bang-Supercomputer simulations also make it possible for physicists and scientists to answer questions about unseen universe of today.
In 1985, the world’s fastest supercomputer was a Cray-2 And today an apple iPad2 has as much computing power as the Cray-2 system hade in 1985.

Understanding the earthquakes- By modeling the three-dimensional structure of the Earth, researchers can predict how earthquake waves will travel either locally and all over the globe.

A Cray-1 supercomputer at the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center was featured in Disney’s 1982 movie “Tron”.

Testing nuclear weapons from 1992, the United States has banned the testing of nuclear weapons.It has been testing the nuclear weapons virtually.

NERSC’s Seaborg supercomputer—an IBM RS/6000 SP had retired in 2007, after 9 years of 24 by 7

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