Supercomputers?

Question

Supercomputers are used for What?

Answer 1

finding the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.

Answer 2

this is an example
Blue Gene is an IBM Research project dedicated to exploring the
frontiers in supercomputing: in computer architecture, in the software required to program and control massively parallel systems, and in the use of computation to advance our understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding.
The full Blue Gene/L machine was designed and built in collaboration with the Department of Energy's NNSA/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and has a peak speed of 360 Teraflops. Blue Gene systems occupy the #1 (Blue Gene/L) and #2 (Blue Gene Watson) positions in the TOP500 supercomputer list announced in November 2005, as well as 17 more of the top 100.

IBM now offers a Blue Gene Solution. IBM and its collaborators are currently exploring a growing list of applications including hydrodynamics, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, climate modeling and financial modeling.

Answer 3

Nice cut and paste Maxtunk.
I wonder if thats how you plagarize your homework assignements too.

Deep Blue Vs Kasparov

Supercomputers used for extreme calculations, and processing of information. Read up on how they configured a system to render the lord of the rings little precious dude.
Amazing

And to think, what we have now personally was better than what they had when they arranged to walk on the moon.

To imagine -- probably not in our lifetime -- but whats considered supercomputer will be something our children or their children will be carrying around with them one day.

Answer 4

Supercomputers are MainFrame used to provide super-fast & powerful computer processing power, in terms of memory, CPU speed, to do instant complex computing tasks, such as the computers used in NASA.

Answer 5

Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research (including research into global warming), molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion), cryptanalysis, and the like. Major universities, military agencies and scientific research laboratories are heavy users.

A particular class of problems, known as Grand Challenge problems, are problems whose full solution require semi-infinite computing resources

Answer 6

Check out the following link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputers

Answer 7

Anything that requires doing a massive amount of mathematical calculations. Climate modeling comes to mind.

Answer 8

processing data, mostly large nuclear weapons simulations.