Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. Traditionally, supercomputers have been used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both).
The first commercially successful supercomputer, the CDC (Control Data Corporation) 6600 was designed by Seymour Cray. Released in 1964, the CDC 6600 had a single CPU and cost $8 million — the equivalent of $60 million today. The CDC could handle three million floating point operations per second (flops).
Today there are many countries which are operating their own supercomputers. The top 10 supercomputers ( as per their operating speed) are as follows-
1)TaihuLight
Country - China
Vendor- NRCPC
Speed(Rmax)- 93.015 PFlops
2) Tianhe-2
Country- China
Vendor- NUDT
Rmax- 33.8 PFlops
3) Piz Diant
Country- Switzerland
Vendor- Cray
Rmax- 19.59 PFlops
4)Titan
country- USA
Vendor- Cray
Rmax- 17.59 PFlops
5)Sequoia
Country- USA
Vendor- IBM
Rmax- 17.17 PFlops
6) Cori
Country- USA
Vendor- Cray
Rmax- 14.015 PFlops
7) Oakforest-PACS
Country- Japan
Vendor- Fujitsu
Rmax- 13.555 PFlops
8)K computer
Country- Japan
Vendor- Fujitsu
Rmax- 10.51 PFlops
9)Mira
Country- USA
Vendor- IBM
Rmax- 8.587
10) Trinity
Country- USA
Vendor- Cray
Rmax- 8.101
There are many countries which are operating supercomputers.
The Top500 supercomputers are located (as of June 2017) in the following countries-
•USA- 168
• China- 160
• Japan- 33
• Germany- 28
• France- 18
• UK- 17
• South Korea- 8
• Poland, Canada- 6
• India- 4
• Australia- 4
• Russia- 3
• Spain- 1
• Singapore- 1
• Italy - 8
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