The Supercomputer Scavenger Hunt
Supercomputers! 
Scavenger Hunt
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Place a small image here if you can find one
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Who invented the Cray Supercomputer? (First & last name please)
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The inventor of the Cray Supercomputer is Seymour Cray.
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In what year?
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It was made in the year 1975.
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What is a FLOPS
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FLOPS stands for `Floating Point Operations Per Second`. FLOPS are used to measure a computer's performance.
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How many flops did the Cray 1 have?
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The Cray 1 has 80 MFLOPS.
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When did the Cray 2 come out?
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The Cray 2 was released in 1985.
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What is a Kiloflops?
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A Kiloflops is 1000 FLOPS.
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A MegaFlops?
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A MegaFlops is 100000000 FLOPS.
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How much is a Gigaflops?
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A Gigaflops is 1000000000 FLOPS.
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How much is a teraflops?
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A Teraflops is 1000000000000 FLOPS.
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How much is a petaflops?
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A Petaflops is 1000000000000000 FLOPS.
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What’s next in the flops pattern?
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The next in FLOPS pattern are, Exaflops, Zettaflops and Yottaflops.
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What is the name and FLOPS of
the fastest Supercomputer of today?
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The fastest Supercomputer today is the Sunway TaihuLight in China. It has 93 Petaflops.
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