At the top of processing capacities

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A supercomputer is a computer which is at the top of current processing capacity, especially speed of calculation. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were principally developed by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and later at Cray Research. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s, machines with thousands of processors began to appear. By the end of the 20th century, supercomputers used tens of thousands of processors. Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks in fields like quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling and physical simulations...... Mehr