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This document provides information about supercomputers, examples of top supercomputers, and differences between mini, micro, and mainframe computers. It defines a supercomputer as a computer that performs at or near the highest operational rate, and notes they are traditionally used for large scientific and engineering applications. Examples given of top supercomputers include Nebulae in China and Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mini computers are described as smaller than mainframes but larger than microcomputers, mainly used as servers. Microcomputers are compact and inexpensive with less capacity than minicomputers. Mainframe design focuses on reliability, input/output facilities, backward compatibility, and virtualization to support high throughput.

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ROLL NO: B 24225 Name: Sheraz Ali: For Example

This document provides information about supercomputers, examples of top supercomputers, and differences between mini, micro, and mainframe computers. It defines a supercomputer as a computer that performs at or near the highest operational rate, and notes they are traditionally used for large scientific and engineering applications. Examples given of top supercomputers include Nebulae in China and Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mini computers are described as smaller than mainframes but larger than microcomputers, mainly used as servers. Microcomputers are compact and inexpensive with less capacity than minicomputers. Mainframe design focuses on reliability, input/output facilities, backward compatibility, and virtualization to support high throughput.

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ROLL NO : B 24225

NAME : SHERAZ ALI

supercomputer
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).

FOR EXAMPLE
·0 NEBULAE, China. ...

·1 ROADRUNNER, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

·2 KRAKEN, National Institute for Computational Sciences.

·3 JUGENE, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany.

·4 PLEIADES, NASA Ames Research Center.

·5 TIANHE-1, ChinaGH

Difference between min ,micro and main frame computer


MIni computers

1. A minicomputer is a type of computer that possesses most of the


features and capabilities of a large computer but is smaller in physical
size.

2.

3. A minicomputer fills the space between the mainframe and


microcomputer, and is smaller than the former but larger than the
latter. Minicomputers are mainly used as small or mid-range servers
operating business and scientific applications. A minicomputer may
also be called a mid-range computer.

4.

5. Minicomputers may contain one or more processors, support


multiprocessing and tasking, and are generally resilient to high
workloads.

Micro computers

A compact and relatively inexpensive computer,

with less capacity and capability than a minicomputer,

consisting of a microprocessor and other components of a computer,

miniaturized where possible: used in small business, by hobbyists, etc.

Mainframe computers
Modern mainframe design is characterized less by raw computational speed and more
by:

6. Redundant internal engineering resulting in high reliability and security

7. Extensive input-output facilities with the ability to offload to separate engines

8. Strict backward compatibility with older software

9. High hardware and computational utilization rates through virtualization to


support massive throughput.

10. Hot-swapping of hardware, such as processors and memory

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