Group Assignment

on

Prepared for:

Ayesha Jahan

Lecturer of school of business

City University.

Prepared by:

Faysal Islam

ID: 09322015

Batch: 13th

Program: B.S.T.E.

Date: 16/05/2010

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Table of content

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01 What is Supercomputer 02

02 What are they used for 02

03 The history of supercomputer 02

04 A Chart of top ten super computer 04

05 Some important information 04

06 Some Important parts of supercomputer 05

07 What is next? 05

08 Growth of supercomputer 06

09 The chance, what can be happened. 07

10 References 07

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What is Supercomputer

The category of computers that includes the fastest is most powerful ones available at any

time.

Designed to solve complex mathematical equation & computational problems very quickly.

Figure: Supercomputer

What are they used for

1.Climate prediction

2.Computational chemistry

3.Crash analysis

4.Cryptography

5.Nuclear simulation

6.Structural analysis

The history of supercomputer

The first supercomputer of the history is Univac-1, introduced by control data corporation

(CDC) & designed by Seymour Cray . After that Cray leave CDC to from his own company which

is known as Cray. With this some other company was also grew, such as IBM, Hewlett-packer

Figure: First Supercomputer.

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As a result we get IBM-703, CDC-6600, CDC-7600, Cray-1, Cray-2, Cray X- MP, Hitachi, Intel Red,

IBM-roadrunner, Cray Jaguar etc. & today’s faster supercomputer is Cray jaguar .which

introduced by Cray at 2009.

Figure: Some Supercomputers.

Another interesting thing is first personal supercomputer already came out which is called tesla

& 25 time faster than average PC.

Figure: Personal supercomputer (Tesla).

The price of supercomputer is very around $800,000 USD & the first supercomputer Univac’s

price was $940,000 USD which is equivalent to the price of 470 cars!

And personal supercomputers price is around $10,000-$30,000.

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A Chart of top ten super computer

Serial Name Company

01 Jaguar - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz Cray

02 Roadrunner - BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster,

PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire

Infiniband

IBM

03 Kraken XT5 - Cray XT5-HE Opteron Six Core 2.6 GHz Cray

04 JUGENE - Blue Gene/P Solution IBM

05 Tianhe-1 - NUDT TH-1 Cluster, Xeon E5540/E5450, ATI

Radeon HD 4870 2, Infiniband

NUDT

06 Pleiades - SGI Altix ICE 8200EX, Xeon QC 3.0

GHz/Nehalem EP 2.93 Ghz

SGI

07 BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution IBM

08 Blue Gene/P Solution IBM

09 Ranger - SunBlade x6420, Opteron QC 2.3 Ghz,

Infiniband

Sun microsystem

10 Red Sky - Sun Blade x6275, Xeon X55xx 2.93 Ghz,

Infiniband

Sun microsystem

Some important information

1.Programing langue is “FORTHAN”

2.To use it environmentally controlled rooms are mostly required .

3.First supercomputer is Univac-1 which introduced at 1960 $ the last supercomputer today is

Cray Jaguar.

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Some Important parts of supercomputer

Figure: 800px-Processor_board_cray-1_hg Figure: Memory rack of a Figure: Control panel of a supercomputer.

Supercomputer.

What is next?

If you Think Supercomputers are the fastest computers in the planet, then you are wrong & you

have to know that they are not the fastest computers on the planet. Human brain which

controls thousands of human muscles, does audio and visual processing at extremely high

speed and controls fastest processor in the world. Thousands of nerves, all in a fraction of a

second is the regarded as the fastest processor in the world.

10 PFLOP is too slow a speed to simulate the whole body including tissue, blood flow and

movement. Size of the brain and heat and power issues of a supercomputer are beyond

comparison. This is an indication that we still have a long way to go.

IBM is planning a 50 PFLOP machine by the end of 2013 and it is estimated that within the next

decade, we will have an exaflop machine.

But what will be happen when we get 500 PELOP computer to computing!!!

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Growth of

supercomputer

Chart of growth of supercomputer.

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The chance, what can be happened.

The first think will be happened that we will not get I/O as first as super computer. What will be

happen then? Then we can use another fastest supercomputer, our brain. If it becomes true

what will be Happened?

Then we can use the idle part of our brain, which one is 85%-92%.

And then a man who is connected with a supercomputer, he will be a superman. We all know

What can be done by a superman!!!!!!!!!!!!

References

Web Site:

1. http://www. ciu . com

2. http://www . top500 . org

3. http://ci .cs . vt .edu

4. http://tolding. typepad . com

5. http://singularity.com/images/charts/SuperComputers.jpg

Newspaper:

1.The daily USA Today (USA)

2.The daily Boston Globe (USA)

3.Guardian (UK)

Magazine:

1. http://www.Computerworld.com