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supercomputer , any of a class of extremely powerful computers. The term is commonly applied to the fastest high-performance systems available at any given time. Such computers have been used primarily for scientific and engineering work requiring exceedingly high-speed computations. Common applications for supercomputers include testing mathematical models for complex physical phenomena or designs, such as climate and weather , evolution of the cosmos , nuclear weapons and reactors, new chemical compounds (especially for pharmaceutical purposes), and cryptology . As the cost of supercomputing declined in the 1990s, more businesses began to use supercomputers for market research and other business-related models.

Supercomputers have certain distinguishing features. Unlike conventional computers, they usually have more than one CPU (central processing unit), which contains circuits for interpreting program instructions and executing arithmetic and logic operations in proper sequence. The use of several CPUs to achieve high computational rates is necessitated by the physical limits of circuit technology . Electronic signals cannot travel faster than the speed of light , which thus constitutes a fundamental speed limit for signal transmission and circuit switching. This limit has almost been reached, owing to miniaturization of circuit components, dramatic reduction in the length of wires connecting circuit boards, and innovation in cooling techniques (e.g., in various supercomputer systems, processor and memory circuits are immersed in a cryogenic fluid to achieve the low temperatures at which they operate fastest). Rapid retrieval of stored data and instructions is required to support the extremely high computational speed of CPUs. Therefore, most supercomputers have a very large storage capacity, as well as a very fast input/output capability.

Still another distinguishing characteristic of supercomputers is their use of vector arithmetic—i.e., they are able to operate on pairs of lists of numbers rather than on mere pairs of numbers. For example, a typical supercomputer can multiply a list of hourly wage rates for a group of factory workers by a list of hours worked by members of that group to produce a list of dollars earned by each worker in roughly the same time that it takes a regular computer to calculate the amount earned by just one worker.

Supercomputers were originally used in applications related to national security, including nuclear weapons design and cryptography. Today they are also routinely employed by the aerospace, petroleum, and automotive industries. In addition, supercomputers have found wide application in areas involving engineering or scientific research, as, for example, in studies of the structure of subatomic particles and of the origin and nature of the universe. Supercomputers have become an indispensable tool in weather forecasting: predictions are now based on numerical models. As the cost of supercomputers declined, their use spread to the world of online gaming . In particular, the 5th through 10th fastest Chinese supercomputers in 2007 were owned by a company with online rights in China to the electronic game World of Warcraft , which sometimes had more than a million people playing together in the same gaming world.

Although early supercomputers were built by various companies, one individual, Seymour Cray , really defined the product almost from the start. Cray joined a computer company called Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in 1951. When ERA was taken over by Remington Rand, Inc. (which later merged with other companies to become Unisys Corporation ), Cray left with ERA’s founder, William Norris, to start Control Data Corporation (CDC) in 1957. By that time Remington Rand’s UNIVAC line of computers and IBM had divided up most of the market for business computers, and, rather than challenge their extensive sales and support structures, CDC sought to capture the small but lucrative market for fast scientific computers. The Cray-designed CDC 1604 was one of the first computers to replace vacuum tubes with transistors and was quite popular in scientific laboratories. IBM responded by building its own scientific computer, the IBM 7030—commonly known as Stretch—in 1961. However, IBM, which had been slow to adopt the transistor, found few purchasers for its tube-transistor hybrid, regardless of its speed, and temporarily withdrew from the supercomputer field after a staggering loss, for the time, of $20 million. In 1964 Cray’s CDC 6600 replaced Stretch as the fastest computer on Earth; it could execute three million floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), and the term supercomputer was soon coined to describe it.

Cray left CDC to start Cray Research, Inc., in 1972 and moved on again in 1989 to form Cray Computer Corporation. Each time he moved on, his former company continued producing supercomputers based on his designs.

Cray was deeply involved in every aspect of creating the computers that his companies built. In particular, he was a genius at the dense packaging of the electronic components that make up a computer. By clever design he cut the distances signals had to travel, thereby speeding up the machines. He always strove to create the fastest possible computer for the scientific market, always programmed in the scientific programming language of choice ( FORTRAN ), and always optimized the machines for demanding scientific applications—e.g., differential equations , matrix manipulations, fluid dynamics , seismic analysis , and linear programming .

Among Cray’s pioneering achievements was the Cray-1 , introduced in 1976, which was the first successful implementation of vector processing (meaning, as discussed above, it could operate on pairs of lists of numbers rather than on mere pairs of numbers). Cray was also one of the pioneers of dividing complex computations among multiple processors, a design known as “ multiprocessing .” One of the first machines to use multiprocessing was the Cray X-MP, introduced in 1982, which linked two Cray-1 computers in parallel to triple their individual performance. In 1985 the Cray-2, a four-processor computer, became the first machine to exceed one billion FLOPS.

While Cray used expensive state-of-the-art custom processors and liquid immersion cooling systems to achieve his speed records, a revolutionary new approach was about to emerge. W. Daniel Hillis , a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , had a remarkable new idea about how to overcome the bottleneck imposed by having the CPU direct the computations between all the processors. Hillis saw that he could eliminate the bottleneck by eliminating the all-controlling CPU in favour of decentralized, or distributed, controls. In 1983 Hillis cofounded the Thinking Machines Corporation to design, build, and market such multiprocessor computers. In 1985 the first of his Connection Machines, the CM-1 (quickly replaced by its more commercial successor, the CM-2), was introduced. The CM-1 utilized an astonishing 65,536 inexpensive one-bit processors, grouped 16 to a chip (for a total of 4,096 chips), to achieve several billion FLOPS for some calculations—roughly comparable to Cray’s fastest supercomputer.

Hillis had originally been inspired by the way that the brain uses a complex network of simple neurons (a neural network ) to achieve high-level computations. In fact, an early goal of these machines involved solving a problem in artificial intelligence , face-pattern recognition. By assigning each pixel of a picture to a separate processor, Hillis spread the computational load, but this introduced the problem of communication between the processors. The network topology that he developed to facilitate processor communication was a 12-dimensional “ hypercube ”—i.e., each chip was directly linked to 12 other chips. These machines quickly became known as massively parallel computers. Besides opening the way for new multiprocessor architectures, Hillis’s machines showed how common, or commodity, processors could be used to achieve supercomputer results.

Another common artificial intelligence application for multiprocessing was chess . For instance, in 1988 HiTech, built at Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pa., used 64 custom processors (one for each square on the chessboard) to become the first computer to defeat a grandmaster in a match. In February 1996 IBM’s Deep Blue , using 192 custom-enhanced RS/6000 processors, was the first computer to defeat a world champion, Garry Kasparov , in a “slow” game. It was then assigned to predict the weather in Atlanta, Ga., during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games . Its successor (now with 256 custom chess processors) defeated Kasparov in a six-game return match in May 1997.

As always, however, the principal application for supercomputing was military. With the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the United States in 1996, the need for an alternative certification program for the country’s aging nuclear stockpile led the Department of Energy to fund the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI). The goal of the project was to achieve by 2004 a computer capable of simulating nuclear tests —a feat requiring a machine capable of executing 100 trillion FLOPS (100 TFLOPS; the fastest extant computer at the time was the Cray T3E, capable of 150 billion FLOPS). ASCI Red, built at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., with the Intel Corporation , was the first to achieve 1 TFLOPS. Using 9,072 standard Pentium Pro processors, it reached 1.8 TFLOPS in December 1996 and was fully operational by June 1997.

While the massively multiprocessing approach prevailed in the United States, in Japan the NEC Corporation returned to the older approach of custom designing the computer chip—for its Earth Simulator, which surprised many computer scientists by debuting in first place on the industry’s TOP500 supercomputer speed list in 2002. It did not hold this position for long, however, as in 2004 a prototype of IBM’s Blue Gene/L, with 8,192 processing nodes, reached a speed of about 36 TFLOPS, just exceeding the speed of the Earth Simulator. Following two doublings in the number of its processors, the ASCI Blue Gene/L, installed in 2005 at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore , Calif., became the first machine to pass the coveted 100 TFLOPS mark, with a speed of about 135 TFLOPS. Other Blue Gene/L machines, with similar architectures, held many of the top spots on successive TOP500 lists. With regular improvements, the ASCI Blue Gene/L reached a speed in excess of 500 TFLOPS in 2007. These IBM supercomputers are also noteworthy for the choice of operating system , Linux , and IBM’s support for the development of open source applications.

The first computer to exceed 1,000 TFLOPS, or 1 petaflop, was built by IBM in 2008. Known as Roadrunner, for New Mexico’s state bird, the machine was first tested at IBM’s facilities in New York , where it achieved the milestone, prior to being disassembled for shipment to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The test version employed 6,948 dual-core Opteron microchips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and 12,960 of IBM’s Cell Broadband Engines (first developed for use in the Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation 3 video system). The Cell processor was designed especially for handling the intensive mathematical calculations needed to handle the virtual reality simulation engines in electronic games —a process quite analogous to the calculations needed by scientific researchers running their mathematical models .

Such progress in computing placed researchers on or past the verge of being able, for the first time, to do computer simulations based on first-principle physics—not merely simplified models. This in turn raised prospects for breakthroughs in such areas as meteorology and global climate analysis, pharmaceutical and medical design, new materials, and aerospace engineering . The greatest impediment for realizing the full potential of supercomputers remains the immense effort required to write programs in such a way that different aspects of a problem can be operated on simultaneously by as many different processors as possible. Even managing this in the case of less than a dozen processors, as are commonly used in modern personal computers , has resisted any simple solution, though IBM’s open source initiative , with support from various academic and corporate partners, made progress in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Summit and Sierra represent a major shift from how IBM structured previous systems. IBM developed a new computing architecture that combines high-performance POWER9 CPUs with AI-optimized GPUs from our partner NVIDIA — all linked at extremely high speeds and bandwidth.

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Beyond Nvidia: Can Super Micro Computer Be the King of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware?

• Super Micro Computer builds highly customizable servers.
• The company has benefited mightily from the AI demand boom.
• Still, the stock isn't cheap even when considering management's goals.
• Motley Fool Issues Rare “All In” Buy Alert

NASDAQ: SMCI

Super micro computer.

Supermicro's revenue just tripled in its latest quarter.

I'll be upfront: Nvidia is the artificial intelligence (AI) king. There's not a lot of evidence to dispute this claim if you consider its reach, business growth, and the universal nature of its graphics processing units (GPUs) that power AI.

However, if you move beyond Nvidia, there's still another layer of successful businesses riding the same wave. One of those is Super Micro Computer ( SMCI -0.26% ) . Often referred to as Supermicro, the company builds highly customizable servers that house Nvidia's GPUs to give its clients the computing power they need to run complex models.

So, could Supermicro be the secondary king of AI? And should it be in your stock portfolio?

Strong growth, but not as much as some would like

Before the AI boom, Supermicro's business wasn't all that exciting. Although its servers could be tailored to running AI models, conducting drug research, or engineering calculations, that market wasn't that large. However, once the AI arms race kicked off, Supermicro experienced rapid growth in demand for its servers dedicated to AI computing.

But not everyone is a Supermicro customer. Unlike Nvidia, whose superior products stand apart from the competition, Supermicro has multiple competitors. Hewlett-Packard and Dell are two Supermicro competitors, but their offerings aren't as modular as Supermicro's.

As a result, the market for Supermicro's services is much smaller than that of Nvidia. Still, that doesn't mean it can't be a successful business. Revenue in the third quarter of Supermicro's fiscal 2024 (ended March 31) rose 200% year over year to $3.85 billion.

That's incredible growth, but investors found one metric to nitpick: quarterly growth. Revenue was only up 5% quarter over quarter, which indicates that demand isn't rapidly expanding for Supermicro. Compared to Nvidia's Q1 FY 2025 (ending April 28) revenue growth of 18%, Supermicro isn't seeing similar product interest levels.

For Q4, management expects about $5.3 billion in sales, which would deliver strong quarter-over-quarter growth, but year-over-year growth would decelerate to about 143%. But this brings us to an interesting point: Supermicro's market opportunity.

Management's revenue goal is within reach

Also competing with Supermicro are the cloud computing providers . If a business doesn't want to invest capital in building its own server to access the computing power needed to run AI models, it could rent that power from a cloud computing provider like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. However, this business also has a partnership aspect, as Supermicro provides some of the hardware for the big cloud computing companies.

As a result, management has been upfront with investors about what it believes its market opportunity is. Supermicro set a goal of $25 billion in revenue, and if it hits its Q4 revenue target, it will have nearly $15 billion in trailing-12-month revenue. Although management has raised its revenue goal once already (increasing it from $20 billion), if Supermicro hits its revenue goal, it will still be a very expensive stock.

SMCI Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts

Should Supermicro generate $25 billion in annual revenue combined with its Q3 profit margin of 10.5% , it would generate about $2.63 billion in profits. At Supermicro's current market capitalization of $45 billion, that would price the stock at 17 times forward earnings.

That's not a very expensive price, but if that's the business's ceiling, investors may want to pass. Individual investors aim to find strong companies that can compound for years to come. The current AI boom will likely be peak business for Supermicro, so I think investors should turn elsewhere to find other opportunities.

Thanks to AI, Supermicro will be a successful company and grow tremendously; the problem is that most of that growth is already priced in.

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Super Computers. By Phuong Vo. What is a Supercomputer?. Supercomputer is a broad term for one of the fastest computer currently available. Super computers were designed and built to work on extremely large jobs that could not be handled by no other types of computing systems.

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Super Computers By Phuong Vo

What is a Supercomputer? Supercomputer is a broad term for one of the fastest computer currently available. Super computers were designed and built to work on extremely large jobs that could not be handled by no other types of computing systems.

What is a Supercomputer? (cont’d) Supercomputers speed are measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS) in units of • megaflops (MFOPS) • gigaflops (GFLOPS) • teraflops (TFLOPS)

What are Supercomputers Used For? • scientific simulations • animated graphics • analysis of geological data • nuclear energy research and meteorology • computational fluid dynamics

Early History Supercomputer. • Seymour Clay made the first transistorized computer (CDC 1604) in 1964. • In 1965 Cray developed CDC 6600, the first multithreading computer. Cray then developed the CDC 7600 in 1970. • Cray-1 supercomputers project started in 1972 and finished in 1974 and was twice as fast as the 7600 with a vector speed of 80 MFLOPS.

Early History of Supercomputer. (cont’d) • In 1990 Cray successful build Cray-4 the fastest supercomputer in the world at around 10 gigaflops and was smaller than a human brain. • Cray died on October 5th 1996 at the age of 71 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. • Currently the fastest computer is IBM BlueGene/L at around 73 teraflops (TFLOPS)

Parallel Processing Two common type used in supercomputers. • Cluster • Multi-Processor

Cluster Computers Cluster computers are two or more computers working parallel to achieve greater performances. Cluster computers breakup work among the computers in the cluster.

Cluster Computers (cont’d) • Each computer in the cluster is a cpu itself with its own processor, memory, and disk. • The computers communicate with each other via an interconnecting bus.

Xbox Cluster www.anandtech.com successfully built a XBOX Linux cluster consisting of 8 XBOXs. XBOX specs: • PIII 733MHz 128K L2 • Seagate 5400RPM 8GB • 64MB Shared PC3200

Xbox Cluster (cont’d) Performance Benchmarks Distributed Compiling Distributed Rendering

Multi-Processor A multi-processor computer has 2 or more cpus. Each processor is capable of running different program simultaneously (true multitasking).

Multi-Processor (cont’d) • The cpus all shared the other parts of the computers: memory, disk system, bus, etc. • Cpu communicate via memory and the system bus. • Cheaper than cluster computers but does not perform as well.

Advantages of Parallel Processing • Costs are much cheaper than building one supercomputer. • Highly scalable.

Disadvantages of parallel processing. • High overload – it is difficult to make many processor work together efficiently. • It is difficult to write programs to utilize multiple processors at once in an efficient manner.

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Microsoft is proud to sponsor the 41st annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), held from June 17 to June 21. This premier conference covers a broad spectrum of topics in the field, including 3D reconstruction and modeling, action and motion analysis, video and image processing, synthetic data generation, neural networks, and many more. This year, 63 papers from Microsoft have been accepted, with six selected for oral presentations. This post highlights these contributions.

The diversity of these research projects reflects the interdisciplinary approach that Microsoft research teams have taken, from techniques that precisely recreate 3D human figures and perspectives in augmented reality (AR) to combining advanced image segmentation with synthetic data to better replicate real-world scenarios. Other projects demonstrate how researchers are combining machine learning with natural language processing and structured data, developing models that not only visualize but also interact with their environments. Collectively, these projects aim to improve machine perception and enable more accurate and responsive interactions with the world. 

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