The Super Computer

1.Who invented the Cray supercomputer?
The creator of the Cray supercomputer is Seymour Cray. He was a former US Army Coms. operator and University of Minnesota graduate with a science degree in electrical engineering.

2.In what year?
The Cray supercomputer was created in 1976.

3.How many flops did the Cray 1 have?
The Cray 1 had 160 MFLOPS

4.When did the Cray 2 come out?
The Cray 2 came out in 1985

5. What is a Kiloflop?
A kiloflops is a thousand Operations per second.

6. What is a Gigaflop?
A gigaflop is a billion Operations per second.

7. What is a Teraflop?
A teraflop is a trillion Operations per second.

8. What is a Petaflop?
A petaflop is a quadrillion Operations per second.

9. What is next in the flop pattern?
The next in the flop pattern is Exa which is a Quintillion Operations per second.

10.What is SETI?
SETI or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is the term used for  the group of scientists that are doing research in Space for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. SETI is at the forefront of extraterrestrial research and discovery; several large programs have been funded to continue the alien hunt they have commenced to help better understand our evolution.

11.What is the fastest supercomputer a of Sept. 30,2016
The fastest supercomputer as of  Sept. 30,2016 is the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight that runs at 93 PetaFlops. Located in Wuxi, China, the super computer has a 1.31 petabyte memory, uses 15,371 kilowatts of energy, and has 10,649,600 cores.