so what constitutes a super computer anyway it has to mean more than just a really fast computer because that scale is just relative to the speed of computers that came before like compared to a NUMBER_TOKEN macintosh all modern computers are super computers the first hurdle to get over is basically that the essence of supercomputers is that they are not really computers at all not as we know them supercomputers or high-performance computing platforms are scientific instruments or strategic business infrastructure they just happen to be made from the same technology that you might find in your home pc until dojo that is but let's not get ahead of ourselves historically the first supercomputer was the control data corporation NUMBER_TOKEN in the year NUMBER_TOKEN. it was capable of executing three million floating point operations per second also known as flops these are a standard unit of measure in scientific or real-time processing applications bump that up to something more modern that we might be familiar with a playstation NUMBER_TOKEN has a capability of NUMBER_TOKEN teraflops which is about NUMBER_TOKEN million times faster than the og supercomputer for a human being to match one teraflop worth of calculation for one second which is one trillion flops you'd have to perform one calculation every second for the next NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years today the fastest supercomputer we know of is clocked at NUMBER_TOKEN petaflops that's measured in quadrillion flops and would be about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN times faster than your psNUMBER_TOKEN tesla believes they can build dojo out to the point where it will become the fastest supercomputer in the world at a speed of at least one exa-flop or one quintillion flops supercomputers are ranked by an organization called the top NUMBER_TOKEN project they keep a list of the NUMBER_TOKEN most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world and update it twice per year once in june and again in november both updates coincide with the international supercomputing conferences at the top of the list right now is fugaku a system housed at the raiken center for computational science in kobe japan the creators of fugaku also believed that it can reach one exa-flop on the top NUMBER_TOKEN benchmark though it has already passed the exascale on a different benchmark which is where things get annoying because not all computer measurements are created equally and that adds an extra layer of confusion for us simple folk but anyways the whole point of high performance computing is to solve complex problems that the human mind is just too small to handle research into weather and climate is a common application when scientists say that we have to limit the average global temperature increase to NUMBER_TOKEN degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels they didn't come to that number by reading a bunch of farmers almanacs and making a guess they used high performance computing to run simulations and calculate probabilities and create a forecast the same applies for medical research when people ask why we can develop new treatments so much faster than before it's because our computers are faster now than they were before i don't know about you but i've always wanted to read more books but it can be tough to find time to read hundreds of pages with so many distractions around us and this is why i'm so excited to share our sponsor for today's video blinkist blinkist is the only app that condenses non-fiction books to give you the key insights so that you can apply those lessons right away blinkist has over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN titles in NUMBER_TOKEN
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