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.
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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
Getting to HIGH PERFORMANCE
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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
HPC uses several parallel processing techniques to solve advanced computational problems quickly and reliably. HPC is widely used in sciatic computing applications like weather forecasting, molecular modeling, complex system simulations, etc. Traditional supercomputers are custom made and very expensive. A cluster, on the other hand, consists of loosely coupled of the-shelf components. Special programming techniques are required to exploit HPC capabilities.
They explain that Logan’s Run teaches that “[c]omputers aren’t infallible, no matter how appealing it may be to let a supercomputer run our whole world.” Yesilbas, Trendacosta, and Newitz provide similar
The processor is faster, more power efficient, and better equipped for modern computing than any others on the market for a student. Along with the Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 for its RAM, it will be able to run several programs
Works Cited Broida, Rick. “Does it still make sense to build your own computer?” C Net. C Net, 13 May 2013. Web.
However, some strides are being made to better prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis. As of this year, the Pacific Northwest’s warning system for earthquakes is getting its first public test. The Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) was introduced during a workshop in February as a potential emergency planning and response system. Now it is going to be introduced to the public in preparations for any upcoming earthquakes. Similar systems are used around the globe and been proven to be extremely effective.
“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us” (brainyquote.com). - Margaret Thatcher. The atomic bomb is “a bomb whose potency is derived from nuclear fission of atoms of fissionable material with the consequent conversion of part of their mass into energy” (dictionary.com). During the end of World War II, the American made 2 atomic bombs to dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Although the report released by Lawson provided insight about earthquake occurrence, it cannot help scientists and geologists to accurately predict when the next earthquake will occur. However, with advanced monitoring systems and computing power may help in better preparation of future earthquakes. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake brought geologists and scientists together and led to an understanding of earthquakes; how they occur, why they occur and how the world can prevent and manage such disasters in
The power and capability of technology has grown significantly over the past five years. Further research has been done as these advanced technologies has been implemented into numerous things such as, autonomous driving cars, drones, and robots. These devices are taking over tasks that has been done by humans in the past. These devices soon may be smarter than humans in the future as an event called the singularity may occur. Singularity is the "hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change" (oxford).
Due to the challenges of World War II, the 1940’s saw huge technological advancement, from the microwave oven to the color television. All types of people tried to turn their imagination into life. When German troops were sweeping across western Europe and North Africa early in 1940, with lightning speed. The U.S. Army had to have its own response, so as quickly as possible they called out to 135 different American automobile manufacturers for a running prototype to be presented, within just forty-nine days.
Task 4: Select possible iMac computers based on the criteria based above, and remove existing Windows computers to accommodate space. Once all of the data was gathered it was necessary to select a group of computers from which one would be chosen to serve our needs. These decisions were based not only on the criteria, but also from research done on the existing universities which made the changes proposed.
Intel in 1994 was a powerhouse of production and innovation. Expanding with new semiconductor plants in Ireland and New Mexico totaling $1.5 billion, as well as planning a $1.3 billion chip plant in Arizona. Intel had bet on the performance of their Pentium processor line. But no product can be perfect. When compared to the Intel486 processor, the Pentium line offered a new 800 then 600nm manufacturing process while doubling the bus size and further increasing clock speeds for half the cost of a comparable 486.
Quantum Computing: A Leap Forward in Processing Power We live in the information age, defined by the computers and technology that reign over modern society. Computer technology progresses rapidly every year, enabling modern day computers to process data using smaller and faster components than ever before. However, we are quickly approaching the limits of traditional computing technology. Typical computers process data with transistors.1 Transistors act as tiny switches in one of two definite states: ON or OFF.
The human race has got to see some of the top best inventions during the 20th century, for example- the radio, the airplane, nuclear power, automobile, and the one that has by far made human life easy and efficient is the computer. The invention of the computer has led to some of the most significant concepts, ideas, and inventions that eventually led to the evolution of human life. And the major ones are, the internet, long distance communication, easy and safe research and much more! The computer was invented by Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer, and polymath who is also titled as the “father of computers”.
Pranav Patil Computer Science STATEMENT OF PURPOSE INTRO I believe that the ability to invent, innovate and discover is what has propelled man to the echelons of success. Throughout my life, I have been driven by the desire to “create”, a capability that transcends the passive acquisition of knowledge. It is always the unknown path that has enthralled me more than known terrain. In a world where everything from fighter jets to elevators, interactive graphic displays to digital watches, is driven by computers, I found it difficult not to get fascinated by the technology involved.
Thus, after the invention of computer, the gap between man and machine has been bridged up. The computer fever his caught everybody from a child of three to an old man of seventy. Everyone is talking about computers networking from a child of three or an old man seventy. How important computer has become in life today. This shows developed country in the world is equipped with a computer.