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This 8 page paper considers the way both super computers and cluster computers can be used, looking at what they are and how they operate. The paper then considers four well known companies; Wal-Mart, GE, Nedcor and Boeing, and assess which type of system would best suit each company, giving an explanation for each. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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File: TS14_TEsupercomp.rtf
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as Wal-Mart, GE, Nedcor and Boeing are all companies that require extensive processing power. However, for a company to develop this type of computing ability there are two main options;
the development and use of a supercomputer pr the development and use of a cluster. The best option for each company depends on a number of factors, to determine which
is best we need to look firstly at the main differences between a supercomputer and a cluster and the consider the position of each company. A supercomputer is a
single computer that usually gains the power from numerous parallel processors. The most powerful supercomputer in November 2004 was the BlueGene/L DD2 beta-System built by IBM and located in Rochester.
Looking at this will give us an overview of supercomputers as a whole in terms of the ways they may be used in ocmmerce.
This is a cellar computer that is fully scalable, meaning that there will be not occurrence of bottlenecks in the system. The system is targeted to be able
to perform 1012 floating point operations every second (Top500.org, 2004). This is also scalable to 216 compute nodes, each of these has a single compute application-specific integrated circuit and the
expected SDRAM-DDR memory chips, making the application-specific integrated circuit a complete system-on-a-chip (Top500.org, 2004). There a memory controller on the chip to all access to the larger memory chips
that are external to the application-specific integrated circuit (Top500.org, 2004). This allows for complex calculation and multiple functionality and the main aim of this type of computer has been the
heavy numeric scientific application (IBM, 2004). With a top speed aim of 180-360 teraflops when fully scaled and a recorded speed of 70.2 teraflops this has a powerful addition to
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