what is the name of the supercomputer?
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There's a couple of them. \nhttp://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/\nThe new and previous No. 1 is DOE's IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at DOEâ€™s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It has doubled in size (again) and has now achieved a record Linpack performance of 280.6 TFlop/s. It is still the only system ever to exceed the 100 TFlop/s mark.
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Yes, there were indeed computers and they were extremely expensive.\n\nENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties. ENIAC was developed and built by the U.S. Army for their Ballistics Research Laboratory in 1942, with the purpose of calculating ballistic firing tables. The computer was commissioned on May 17, 1943 as Project PX and constructed at Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from mid-1944. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, having cost almost $500,000. ENIAC was shut down on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment and a memory upgrade, and was transferred to the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1947. There, on July 29 of that year, it was turned on and would be in continuous operation until 11:45 p.m. on October 2, 1955.\n\nThe American Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) (1937–42) was the first electronic digital computer. It implemented binary computation with vacuum tubes but was not Turing-complete and was limited to solving linear equations. \n\nThe Harvard Mk I is an ever earlier example.
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in terms of memory capacity and storage, the human brain outperforms even a supercomputer.\n\nhowever, in terms of memory retrieval and information processing, the computer outperforms the human brain...
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A master control circuit\n\nThe silicon chip with thousands of electronic components that serves as the central processing unit (CPU) in microcomputers
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Computer\nCompute + -er\nOne who computes (calculates). The word computer predates modern computers.
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Don't know the specs, but the most powerful computer on Earth is called Deep Thought...that would be the one that discovered that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is "42."
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My dream computer would have to be a quad 3.4ghz xeon processor comp with bout at leat 4 - 6 gbs ram. Not sure bout the video right now but I know it would have to be freaking awesome.
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I have worked with SGI(Silicon Graphics) Origin machines in a data center environment. These boxes boasted 32 banks of dual processor blades or "bricks" (64 processors). Each brick carried 4 gigs of memory. That's well over a terabyte!!!!  The systems DID NOT run on windows. I believe it was a proprietary version of UNIX that SGI engineered specifically for the Origin machine. It took us 4 months just to burn in and test the machine. After it went live, it was bought by a company that rented it out to clients like NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to compute trajectory paths for missions. I also heard it was used for many other purposes including calculating wind tunnel tests by car manufacturers. Basically it was "rent a brain" ..... this was close to 4 years back and I have to believe these numbers have been surpassed. I can only imagine what the government is tinkering with.
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See if this helps:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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PA-8000 - HP\n\nHighlights of the PA-8000 include the following:\nRecord-breaking transaction processing performance --> 700 tps; \nRecord-breaking SPEC performance; --> 360+ SPECint92, >550+ SPECfp92; \nFull binary compatibility with all prior and future PA-RISC implementations; \n"Intelligent Execution" technology in the microarchitecture; and \nFull 64-Bit microprocessor. \n\nhttp://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/announce/1995/pa8000.html
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what computer?\nwho is talking about?
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Charles Babbage invented the computing machine..\n\nIts was series is research done to get the current form of computers
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i think the most expensive computer was build in japan, they are using it to decifer the human genome and dns codes.  i think it was a big as a caror bigger im not sure
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IBM Introduces 'World Community Grid'\n\nPublic invited to donate idle computer time for global humanitarian effort\n\nARMONK, N.Y., November 16, 2004— IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world's most difficult health and societal problems.\n\nWorld Community Grid will harness the vast and unused computational power of the world's computers and direct it at research designed to help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer's and cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and support studies that can protect the world's food and water supply. Anyone can volunteer to donate the idle and unused time on a computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
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In supercomputers, the BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution stationed at DOE/NNSA/LLNL at Livermore in California is ruling the world. It has, hold on your breath, 131072 processors,each processor with an individual performance of 2.8 GigaFlops (PowerPC 440 700 MHz). It has a main memory of 32768 GB and is 3 times more powerful in processing than its immediate competitor (Also by IBM). Surprisingly, its still in expansion phase. Blue Gene is an IBM Research project dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing: in computer architecture, in the software required to program and control massively parallel systems, and in the use of computation to advance our understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding.
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The Computer for the 21st Century\nMark Weiser
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