Supercomputer — A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation (at the time of its introduction). The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 [cite book |last=Eames … Wikipedia
supercomputer — /sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr, sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications. [SUPER + COMPUTER] * * * Any of a class of extremely powerful digital computers. The … Universalium
Supercomputer Education Research Centre — The Computer Centre, established in 1970 as a central computing facility, became Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) in 1990 to provide state of the art computing facility to the faculty and students of the Institute. The Centre is … Wikipedia
Computers and Information Systems — ▪ 2009 Introduction Smartphone: The New Computer. The market for the smartphone in reality a handheld computer for Web browsing, e mail, music, and video that was integrated with a cellular telephone continued to grow in 2008. According to… … Universalium
ETA Systems — was a supercomputer company spun off from Control Data Corporation (CDC) in the early 1980s in order to regain a footing in the supercomputer business. They successfully delivered an excellent machine, the ETA 10, but lost money continually while … Wikipedia
List of operating systems — Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap.Early, and historically important*CTSS (The Compatible Timeshare… … Wikipedia
Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer — The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer (personal supercomputer) that is backed by Nvidia and built by Dell, Lenovo and other companies[1]. It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia s Tesla GPGPU brand; it… … Wikipedia
New York Blue Gene supercomputer — New York Blue Gene supercomputer, also known as NewYorkBlue, is a 18 rack Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer based on the IBM system on chip technology. It is located in the New York Center for Computational… … Wikipedia
Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer — The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer (ECS) was a large Meiko Computing Surface supercomputer. This transputer based, massively parallel system was installed at the University of Edinburgh during the late 1980s and early 1990s. History Following … Wikipedia
Columbia (supercomputer) — The Columbia Supercomputer at NASA s Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center Named in honor of the crew who died in the Columbia disaster, Columbia is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. Its main purpose wa … Wikipedia
