Supercomputers, the world's largest and fastest computers, are primarily used for complex scientific calculations. The parts of a supercomputer are comparable to those of a desktop computer: they both contain hard drives, memory, and processors...

Supercomputing is a concept that has evolved rapidly. Computers developed under that description have existed only since the early 1970s. For most of the time since, supercomputers have been widely imagined to be expensive, arcane devices, employed in...

The introduction of the microprocessor integrated circuit (IC) in 1971 gave birth to two new categories of computer, the microcomputer and the supercomputer. The microcomputer developed first, drawing on the sudden progress in miniaturization...

A supercomputer is a computer that is considered, or was considered at the time of its introduction, to be at the frontline in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. The term "Super Computing" was first used by New York World...

Compaq and Sandia introduced the Kudzu supercomputer in Nov 1998. The supercomputer is composed of hardware and software components that can be purchased anywhere and put together fairly simply. The Kudzu supercomputer is faster than conventional supercomputers and less expensive as well. Examples of...

Supercomputers In the Office Solving business problems with science Supercomputers are used to solve computationally difficult problems in science and engineering: the study of wind flows over an aircraft wing, analysis of the reaction kinetics of a new pharmaceutical compound, and...

By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.The National Science Board on Wednesday gave the National Science Foundation the OK to spend $208 million to build the computer at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana....

The forces at work in dying stars and black holes, Earth's global climate change, nanostructures and cellular membranes all will be on the agenda for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputers this year.So will research that could lead to better glass for Corning Inc., improved...