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Super Computer

A supercomputer is a computer with significantly higher performance than a regular computer, as measured by its ability to perform floating point operations per second (FLOPS). FLOPS is useful for scientific computations involving very large or small real numbers that require fast processing. Modern supercomputers can perform over 100 quadrillion FLOPS, known as petaFLOPS, and the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world all use Linux-based operating systems.

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Super Computer

A supercomputer is a computer with significantly higher performance than a regular computer, as measured by its ability to perform floating point operations per second (FLOPS). FLOPS is useful for scientific computations involving very large or small real numbers that require fast processing. Modern supercomputers can perform over 100 quadrillion FLOPS, known as petaFLOPS, and the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world all use Linux-based operating systems.

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What is a Supercomputer?

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance in comparison to a


general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is typically tracked
through its floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). FLOPS a measure of
computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require
floating-point calculations, aka calculations that include very small and very
large real numbers and usually need fast processing times. It is a more accurate
measure than million instructions per second (MIPS).

Since 2017, we have supercomputers that can carry out over a hundred quadrillion
FLOPS, called petaFLOPS. It is also interesting to note that today, all of the
world’s fastest 500 supercomputers run Linux-based operating systems.

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