Most of the fastest 100 computers in the world can execute 5 Trillion (5,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second (FLOPS)
The new Fastest Supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner, just achieved 1 PetaFLOPS (1 quadrillion - 1,000,000,000,000,000 computations per second in early June, 2008)
The actual measured speed was 1.047 PetaFLOPS.
However, it is still being built - and should achieve 1.7 PetaFLOPS by the end of 2008.
No
They used a computer at the University of Tokyo.
Yes you can. You can create queries that do calculations. You can write code for programs to do calculations in a database. Doing calculations is a significant element of what you do with a database, so yes you can do them within a database.
No, it is not.
ENIAC, one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers, could perform approximately 5,000 calculations per second. This was a significant achievement for its time, as it dramatically increased the speed of computation compared to earlier mechanical devices. Despite its capabilities, ENIAC was still relatively slow by modern standards, as contemporary computers can perform billions of calculations per second.
In June 2014 the world's fastest supercomputer was Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology. This checked out at 33.86 Pflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark.
There is no such thing as a business supercomputer. Supercomputers were designed for solving scientific, engineering, and code breaking problems that required very involved and repetitive calculations and little input/output. Business computers were designed to do simple calculations that required more input/output than calculations.
Formulas are mathematical instructions that perform calculations.
All legal Excel calculations.
calculate
Of course not. It's IE.
They are fast, but a supercomputer is faster.
No - a supercomputer is a single device or system (although fast and expensive). A massive collection of networked computers can give the results of a supercomputer but they would not be considered one.
The main reason for Excel is to perform calculations.
to perform tedious calculations
mathematics
You can use queries to delete records and queries to perform calculations.