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  1. Who invented the supercomputer?

  2. A.

     Charles Babbage

    B.

     JH Van Tassell

    C.

     Charles Ginsberg

    D.

     Seymour Cray

    E.

     None of these

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    Answer : Option D

    Explanation :

    Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC)

    A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer. Performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS)


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