When does a really fast computer become super?
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What is super about a super computer is how quickly they can do calculations. FLOPS (floating point operations per second) is a commonly used measure of computing performance – it’s a measure of how many mathematical operations a computer can do every second. Current supercomputers can perform over 10^17 FLOPS, compared to desktop computers which are in the 10^13 range. So a supercomputer can do like 10,000 times as many calculations every second, as compared to a desktop computer.
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