Computer Network

Computer foundation

The supercomputers were introduced in the sixties and were designed primarily by Seymour Cray in the Control Data Corporation (CDC),
 which dominated the market during that time, until Cray left CDC to form his own company, Cray Research. With this new company, he continued to dominate the market with his new designs,
 obtaining the highest podium in supercomputing for five consecutive years (1985-1990).
 In the 1980s, a large number of competing companies entered the market in parallel with the creation of the minicomputer market a decade earlier, but many of them disappeared in the mid-1990s.
The term is in constant flux. Today's supercomputers tend to become the ordinary computers of tomorrow.
The first CDC machines were simply very fast scalar processors, and many of the new competitors developed their own scalar processors at a little price to penetrate the market.
Main uses: Supercomputers are used to address very complex problems that cannot be realized in the physical world either because they are danger,
involve incredibly small or incredibly large things. Here are some examples:
Through the use of supercomputers, researchers model the past climate and the current climate and predict the future climate.
Astronomers and space scientists use supercomputers to study the Sun and space weather.
Scientists use supercomputers to simulate how a tsunami could affect a particular coast or city.
Supercomputers are used to simulate supernova explosions in space.
Supercomputers are used to test the aerodynamics of the most recent military aircraft.
computers are being used to model how proteins are folded and how that folding can affect people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis and many types of cancer.
Supercomputers are used to model nuclear explosions, limiting the need for true nuclear tests