The Supercomputer Scavenger Hunt



Supercomputers!
Scavenger Hunt

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Who invented the Cray Supercomputer? (First & last name please)

The inventor of the Cray Supercomputer is Seymour Cray.
https://www.cisl.ucar.edu/dig/cuglog/winter97/images/seymour.gif
In what year?

It was made in the year 1975.
What is a FLOPS



FLOPS stands for `Floating Point Operations Per Second`. FLOPS are used to measure a computer's performance.

How many flops did the Cray 1 have?

The Cray 1 has 80 MFLOPS.
When did the Cray 2 come out?
The Cray 2 was released in 1985.
What is a Kiloflops?
A Kiloflops  is 1000 FLOPS.

A MegaFlops?
A MegaFlops is 100000000 FLOPS.

How much is a Gigaflops?
A Gigaflops is 1000000000 FLOPS.

How much is a teraflops?
A Teraflops is 1000000000000 FLOPS.

How much is a petaflops?
A Petaflops is 1000000000000000 FLOPS.

What’s next in the flops pattern?
The next in FLOPS pattern are, Exaflops, Zettaflops and Yottaflops.

What is the name and FLOPS of
the fastest Supercomputer of today?



The fastest Supercomputer today is the Sunway TaihuLight in China. It has 93 Petaflops.

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