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The Super Computer
The super computer is a gigantic electric computer. It is a computer that consists of hundreds or even thousands of processors and it can also calculate the big complex projects that common PCs and servers cannot finish. The super computer has the strong ability to calculate and process data, but it still maintains high-speed and large capacity. It is equipped with a lot of peripheral and ancillary equipment and various high-function software systems. The super computer is the reflection of national scientific research.
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What are supercomputers currently used for?

Supercomputers conjure up the image of those massive, hulking, overheating machines that were the world's introduction to computing -- the ones that took up huge amounts of space to spit out computation after computation. You might be surprised to find out that even with the ubiquitous nature of the personal PC and network systems, supercomputers are still used in a variety of operations. In the next few pages, we'll give you the skinny on what supercomputers are and how they still function in several industrial and scientific areas.

Chinese supercomputer is the world's fastest — and without using US chips

China's investment in high-performance chips and supercomputers in recent years has been significant and effective. In 2001, there were no Chinese supercomputers in the world's top 500 ranking. Now, there are 167 — more than the US, which has 165 entries. The development of TaihuLight was funded under the so-called "863 program," a government project aimed at ending reliance on foreign technology.

China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips

China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors. This follows a U.S. government decision last year to deny China access to Intel's fastest microprocessors.

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1 A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.

2 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).

3 At any given time, there are a few well-publicized supercomputers that operate at extremely high speeds relative to all other computers.