what is the most powerful computer in the world? where is it? and what does it do? and just how powerful is it and how does that compare to the normal house hold pc or laptop
2006-08-25 10:24:44 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
the human brain is not a computer
2006-08-25 10:28:48 · update #1
IBM's Blue Gene/L developed and installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the fastest computer till date with performance of 280.6 Tflop/s.
2006-08-25 17:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by thekaran 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A super-computer tends to be less powerful then your avarage house hold PC, it's not the power behind that makes it super.
The Human Brain can be compaired to a computer tho it could easily not fall under the catagory of computer.
So I would have to say the most powerful computer is locked up in come top sectret area waiting to be sold in parts to the bussiness community. As for what i can do, anything the user wants it to. Like computer currently avaliable.
2006-08-25 10:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by earthangel_ghost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's most powerful computer
When it is completed in late 2004, the world's most powerful computer will be ASCI Purple.
It is expected to carry out 100 trillion operations per second.
A spokesman for IBM, who are building the computer, said ASCI Purple would be nearly as powerful as the human brain.
But some scientists believe our brains can carry out around 10,000 trillion operations per second.
A supercomputer, which can process over 200 trillion operations per second, is expected to be built within the next two years.
It is being built to replace ASCI White - formerly the world's most powerful computer - which occupies a space the size of two basketball courts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
2006-08-25 10:29:12 · answer #3 · answered by Istiaque Choudhury, BEng (Hons) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human Brain
2006-08-25 10:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by Gray 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
(The human bio-computer, and the spiritual computer that runs the world and the Universe). Since, you are talking about man-made computers only, well, then one of them is the Super-Computer Cray, which has various applications, one of them being Meteorology. Also the servers, search engines, voluminous storage devices, routers and the EPABX systems used by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, AT & T, etc., are computers which are voluminous and elaborate, quite beyond the comprehension of normal folks. Even the chilling systems, they use in the their halls of data storage machines, are examples worth knowing about. Further discussion, on this topic, is way beyond the scope of this forum.
2006-08-25 10:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont worry about which computer is the most powerful, next year it will be another and the year after that another. 10 years time deep blues nephew will be on your desktop. im running a 2 gig sempron, 20 years ago the cray 2000 was like a pocket calculator compared to modern comps.
2006-08-25 10:35:41 · answer #6 · answered by nuclear farter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human brain hands down
2006-08-25 10:27:30 · answer #7 · answered by Jules 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The NEC earth simulator at the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences in Japan, capable of 35.6 trillion calculations per second.
It simulates the earth's climate to predict climate change and global warming or not depending on your point of view. Its built by HNSX supercomputers a subdivision of NEC
2006-08-25 10:37:44 · answer #8 · answered by Fram464 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most powerful computer at present is in the national security agency headquarters
2006-08-25 10:36:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Human Brain, though, you wouldn't think so judging by some of the Questions and answers on this forum!
2006-08-25 10:35:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋