Supercomputers

What is a supercomputer?

• A computer that can only perform basic calculations

• A computer used only for gaming

• A type of computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer

• A computer that is used for personal tasks

What is the performance of a supercomputer commonly measured in?

• FLOPS (floating-point operations per second)

• MIPS (million instructions per second)

• GHz (gigahertz)

• MB (megabytes)

Which operating system do all of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers run on since November 2017?

• Linux-based operating systems

• Windows

• Unix

• MacOS

Which country has the fastest supercomputer as of May 2022?

• United States

• China

• Germany

• Japan

Who was a key figure in the development of early supercomputers?

• Bill Gates

• Steve Jobs

• Seymour Cray

• Mark Zuckerberg

What was the first supercomputer to break the gigaflop barrier?

• IBM 7030

• Cray-2

• CDC 6600

• Cray-1

What is the main purpose of supercomputers in computational science?

• To run office applications

• To browse the internet

• To perform a wide range of computationally intensive tasks

• To play video games

Which supercomputer was the first to use liquid cooling?

• Cray-1

• IBM Blue Gene

• CDC 6600

• Cray-2

What is the LINPACK benchmark used for?

• To measure the speed of internet connections

• To benchmark the performance of supercomputers

• To test the battery life of laptops

• To evaluate the graphics performance of computers

Which supercomputer was used to simulate a number of artificial neurons equivalent to approximately one percent of a human cerebral cortex?

• Fugaku

• Tianhe-1A

• IBM Blue Gene/P

• Cray-2