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Some history as motivation

Some history as motivation

- [Instructor] Before we talk about the Deep Blue chess playing computer, let me tell you about supercomputers. You may already know this, but to succeed at the challenge of beating a human chess champion, we need way more computational power than just a desktop computer. So, supercomputers are computers with much higher performance specs than regular desktop computers. They usually have many, many CPUs in blocks known as compute nodes, which perform massive parallel computing. They also have huge specs for storage and RAM. All of this computational power comes with a price. Supercomputers are very costly and highly demanding in energy and space. As examples of supercomputers, I can mention those by Cray Research. This picture shows the HLRN-III Cray system at Zeus Institute in Berlin. So what are the applications of supercomputers? Well, supercomputers have been used for weather forecasting, aerodynamic research, astronomy, biology, pharmacology, and most of these applications…

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