The computers that we regular consumers have are very powerful devices capable of handling millions (and even billions) of calculations in a second. Supercomputers, meanwhile, are thousands of times more powerful than the consumer devices available on the market.
Marcus Lu and Athul Alexander from Visual Capitalist help us visualize the computing power of the world’s top five supercomputers through this infographic. As we can see, consumer products pale in comparison when put side by side with these supercomputers.
But that's not all. Countries are already creating new supercomputers with more computing power than these.
Supercomputers have various applications, such as in weather simulations and innovative drug discovery.
(Image Credit: Visual Capitalist)
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