In 1960, UNIVAC built the Livermore Atomic Research Computer (LARC), today considered among the first supercomputers, for the US Navy Research and … Sjå meir

Throughout the decades, the management of heat density has remained a key issue for most centralized supercomputers. The large amount of heat generated by a system may also have other effects, e.g. reducing the lifetime of other system components. There … Sjå meir

Opportunistic approaches
Opportunistic supercomputing is a form of networked grid computing whereby a "super virtual … Sjå meir

Cloud computing with its recent and rapid expansions and development have grabbed the attention of high-performance computing (HPC) … Sjå meir

A number of special-purpose systems have been designed, dedicated to a single problem. This allows the use of specially programmed FPGA chips or even custom ASICs Sjå meir

Operating systems
Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone major transformations, based on the changes in Sjå meir

Capability versus capacity
Supercomputers generally aim for the maximum in capability computing rather than capacity computing. Capability computing is typically … Sjå meir