Test: Types of Computer - 2 - Bank Exams MCQ

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) constructed the supercomputer known as SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 Teraflops).

Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, the ISRO Chairman, unveiled it on May 2, 2011. It is no longer the fastest supercomputer in India as of January 8, 2018, having been eclipsed by the Pratyush supercomputer, which has a theoretical maximum speed of 220 TFlops.

Super computers are used with complex applications like Global Weather Forecasting, Creating graphic images, engineering design and testing, space exploration, etc.

SNARC was the first neural network computer. It was built by Minsky and Edmonds in 1956.

The invention of the microprocessor (also called a single-chip CPU) gave birth to much cheaper microcomputers.

Cray Research created, produced, and sold the supercomputer known as the Cray-1. The first Cray-1 system, announced in 1975, was set up at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976. The vector processor concept was first successfully implemented in the Cray-1 supercomputer.

Mini computers are compared to mainframe computers in terms of:
1. speed and 2. storage capacity.

A computer whose dominant characteristic is its ability to perform large amounts of numerical computations quickly. Supercomputers, for example, are sometimes called number crunchers.

The first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer was created by the US during World War II and is known as ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.

Hybrid computer is mostly used with automatic operations of complicated physical processes and machines.

A supercomputer is a type of computer that performs at a higher level than a general-purpose computer.