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Supercomputer

An employee of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information checks the supercomputers at the research institute.

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This type of computer usually costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Although some supercomputers are single computer systems, most are composed of multiple high performance computers working in parallel as a single system. The best known supercomputers are built by Cray Supercomputers.

 

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