Q20
Who invented the supercomputer?
A.
Charles Babbage
B.
JH Van Tassell
C.
Charles Ginsberg
D.
Seymour Cray
AnswerE.
None of these
Answer: Option D
Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC)A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer. Performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS)