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This list of computer size categories attempts to list commonly used categories of computer by the physical size of the device and its chassis or case, in descending order of size. One generation's "supercomputer" is the next generation's "mainframe", and a "PDA" does not have the same set of functions as a "laptop", but the list still has ...
Classes of computers. Different types of computers – clockwise from top left: Desktop computer (IBM ThinkCentre S50 with monitor) Smartphone ( LYF Water 2) Supercomputer (IBM Blue Gene/P) Video game console (Nintendo GameCube) Computers can be classified, or typed, in many ways. Some common classifications of computers are given below.
The IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected by a high-speed 3D torus network. [1] [2] Computing power of the top 1 supercomputer each year, measured in FLOPS. A supercomputer is a type of computer with a ...
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller computers that was developed in the mid-1960s [41] [42] and sold for much less than mainframe [43] and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. Supercomputers can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
A computer lab with desktop PCs with flat-panel monitors. A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop[ 1]) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply ...
The 4004 was only capable of 60,000 instructions per second, but its successors brought ever-growing speed and power to computers, including the Intel 8008, 8080 (used in many computers using the CP/M operating system), and the 8086/8088 family. (The IBM personal computer (PC) and compatibles use processors that are still backward-compatible ...
2×10 15: Nvidia DGX-2 a 2 Petaflop Machine Learning system (the newer DGX A100 has 5 Petaflop performance) 10×10 15: minimum computing power of a Type I Kardashev civilization [5] 11.5×10 15: Google TPU pod containing 64 second-generation TPUs, May 2017 [11] 17.17×10 15: IBM Sequoia's LINPACK performance, June 2013 [12]
Magnetic-core memory computers (5 P) Mainframe computers (10 C, 37 P) Massively parallel computers (26 P) Microcomputers (10 C, 56 P) Military computers (3 C, 68 P) Minicomputers (7 C, 74 P) Mobile computers (15 C, 67 P)