FLOPS
Measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.
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TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
[[File:Supercomputers-history.svg|thumb|right|400px|Rapid growth of supercomputer performance, based on data from the top500.org website. The logarithmic y-axis shows performance in GFLOPS.
Vector processor
Central processing unit that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently and effectively on large one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors.
Central processing unit that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently and effectively on large one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors.
Their version of the design originally called for a 1 GFLOPS machine with 256 ALUs, but, when it was finally delivered in 1972, it had only 64 ALUs and could reach only 100 to 150 MFLOPS.
IBM Blue Gene
Blue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption.
Riken
Large scientific research institute in Japan.
Large scientific research institute in Japan.
The Riken Super Combined Cluster is one of the world's fastest supercomputers. In January 2006, Riken set up the Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, with the purpose of designing and building the fastest supercomputer in the world, and in June 2006, it announced the completion of a one-petaFLOPS computer system designed specially for molecular dynamics simulation. and despite it being still not finished, it topped the LINPACK benchmark with the performance of 8.162 petaFLOPS, or 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second, with a computing efficiency ratio of 93.0%, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world at the time. The complete project entered service in November 2012.
Floating-point arithmetic
Arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation to support a trade-off between range and precision.
Arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation to support a trade-off between range and precision.
The speed of floating-point operations, commonly measured in terms of FLOPS, is an important characteristic of a computer system, especially for applications that involve intensive mathematical calculations.
Grid computing
Use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal.
Use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal.
Also, as of March 2019, the Bitcoin Network had a measured computing power equivalent to over 80,000 exaFLOPS (Floating-point Operations Per Second).
Cray
American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
In May 2004, Cray was announced to be one of the partners in the United States Department of Energy's fastest-computer-in-the-world project to build a 50 teraFlops machine for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
NEC
Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.
Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo.
2002 Installation of the Earth Simulator, the world's fastest supercomputer from 2002 to 2004 reaching a speed of 35,600 gigaflops
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Open-source middleware system for volunteer computing and grid computing.
Open-source middleware system for volunteer computing and grid computing.
As a high-performance distributed computing platform, BOINC brings together about 34,236 active participants employing 136,341 active computers (hosts) worldwide, processing daily on average 20.164 PetaFLOPS (it would be the 21st largest processing capability in the world compared with an individual supercomputer Supercomputer TOP500 list).
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
U.S. multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
U.S. multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
In 1995 ORNL bought an Intel Paragon based computer called the Intel Paragon XP/S 150 that performed at 154 gigaFLOPS and ranked third on the TOP500 list of supercomputers.