ITPEC IP October 2021 Question 23
ITPEC IP October 2021 — Question 23 of 100
A supercomputer is designed to perform extremely large volumes of calculations at very high speed. Its massive parallel processing capability makes it suitable for scientific workloads such as global environmental simulation, weather modeling, and DNA analysis.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- a virtual computer is a software-defined computing environment hosted on physical hardware
- a general-purpose computer is designed for varied ordinary workloads rather than maximum-scale numerical computation
- a microcomputer is a small computer built around a microprocessor, such as a personal computer
Key rule: Supercomputers target the highest-performance, computation-intensive scientific and engineering tasks.
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