How fast can a supercomputer work at the very most? Is there a theoretical limit on the speed of its operations?
The first true supercomputer, CRAY-1 (photo, left) made in 1976, ran at a speed of 100 megaflops. (A flop is the number of mathematical operations involving decimal fractions that a computer can make in a second. Mega = 1000.) At present the fastest supercomputer is China’s Tianhe-1 (see photo, below) which can … Read more