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Computer Fundamentals · Q20

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Computer Related · Computer Fundamentals · question 20

Q20

Who invented the supercomputer?

A.
Charles Babbage
B.
JH Van Tassell
C.
Charles Ginsberg
D.
Seymour Cray
Answer
E.
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)