COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Mainframe Computer
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Micro computers
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Mini Computer
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Super Computer
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Detailed explanation-1: -NWS super computers hold numerical modeling data for weather forecasting models. These computers make use of virtually all observational data that the NWS collects. This data comes from satellites, weather balloons, buoys, radar, and more.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fastest and first exascale supercomputer in the world, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5, located at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in Tennessee, is capable of performing 1.102 quintillion operations per second, making it well suited for complex weather modeling.
Detailed explanation-3: -Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling, physical simulations, and data analysis.