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A matter of scale (Mainframes (Parallel processing (Able to process more…
A matter of scale
Desktop computers
and
laptops
Not powerful
or
fast
enough
Workstation
Lot of power
and
high-performance
capabilities
Mainframes
Bigger computers
Parallel processing
Able to
process more little problems
splitting the main
1950s
Long before
server
Supercomputer
Used for weather maps, construction of atom bombs, finding oil etc.
Massively parallel processing
Use
many thousand processors
Sunway TaihuLight (China)
93 petaflops
A quadrillion operations per second for each petaflop
Titan (USA)
17 petaflops