10 Fastest Supercomputers in the World

We live in the computer age so it's no surprise that a nation's international importance is often measured on the number and the size of supercomputers it runs. the supercomputers that do the world's craziest calculations will always put our dinky consumer electronics to shame. So, if you thought your PC was fast, wait until you see what these fastest supercomputers in the world are capable of!

If someone says "supercomputer," your mind may jump to Deep Blue, and you wouldn't be alone. IBM's silicon chess wizard defeated grand master Gary Kasparov in 1997, cementing it as one of the most famous computers of all time (some controversy around the win helped, too). For years, Deep Blue was the public face of supercomputers, but it's hardly the only all-powerful artificial thinker on the planet. In fact, IBM took Deep Blue apart shortly after the historic win! More recently, IBM made super computing history with Watson, which defeated "Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a special match. Brilliant as they were, neither Deep Blue nor Watson would be able to match the computational muscle of the systems. The supercomputers on this list are a throwback to the early computers of the 1950s -- which took up entire rooms -- except modern computers are using racks upon racks of cutting-edge hardware to produce petaflops of processing power.

Your home computer probably runs on four processor cores. Most of today's supercomputers use hundreds of thousands of cores, and the top entry has more than 3 million. Anyway, such ultramodern devices as supercomputers make us think of times to come and how the world will differ from what it is right now. Hence, I invite you to take a look at the list Insidermonkey made on the 10 Jobs that May Exist in the Future. Trust me, you will be surprised!