what are supercomputers
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❁ Designed for ultra high performance tasks such as weather analysis encryption cracking and creation of animation.
❁ Supercomputers are large, expensive, massively parallel processing usually owned by government agencies or large corporations.
❁ It is a Generally accepted fact that the National security agency (NSA) houses a member of super computers dedicated to code breaking and intelligence gathering.
❁ Examples of supercomputers are IBM's deep blue, which defeated world chess champion Garry kasparov, Silicon graphics grey line and IBM Sequoia.
❁ Oak ridge National laboratory's latest flagship computer Titan which perform quadrillion calculations per second is the fastest supercomputer.
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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).