What's the use of supercomputers?

Function: It has a strong ability to calculate and process data, characterized by high speed, large capacity, various external and peripheral devices and rich high-function software systems. Most existing supercomputers can run at a speed of more than one trillion times per second.

At present, the domestic application fields involve weather and climate, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, new materials and many other aspects, especially in the field of engineering technology, which is of great significance.

For example, the full-parameter aerodynamic optimization design of China commercial passenger plane, with 24,000 CPU cores, takes 6 days to calculate on Tianhe-2 and 2 years to complete on its own computing platform. The smooth return of Tiangong-1 also depends on the accurate prediction provided by the supercomputer.

Expand the history of data development

The word "supercomputing" first appeared in 1929 "Report on IBM Building Watchmaking Machine for Columbia University" in new york World News. It is a computer composed of hundreds, thousands or even more processors, which can calculate large and complex problems that ordinary PCs and servers can't complete.

Compare the operation speed of ordinary computers to the speed of adults walking, and then supercomputers reach the speed of rockets. Under the premise of such operation speed, people can predict and explain natural phenomena that could not be experimented before through numerical simulation.

Since Cray Company of the United States launched the world's first supercomputer with an operation speed of 250 million times per second in 1976, this supercomputer, which shows a country's scientific and technological strength, can be called a high-tech darling with thousands of favorites. Great achievements have been made in high-tech fields such as weather forecast, genetic analysis of life sciences, nuclear industry, military affairs, aerospace and so on, which have won the hearts of scientific and technological elites in various countries, and all countries are beginning to develop billion-level supercomputers.

References:

Supercomputer _ Baidu Encyclopedia