Top 9 Supercomputers (2018) Puzzle - Fun IT Learning Game

Top 9 Supercomputers 2018 is a free online knowledge level game to explore the most powerful supercomputers up to the year 2018! Drag and drop the 9 photos of supercomputers into the correct slots, matching their PFLOPS speed, year of launch, and country flag. This "minute to win it" computer technology puzzle is a fantastic exercise in game-based learning, allowing students to visually study computing history directly in their web browser. Complete these interactive learning games to earn a Knowledge Level! These cool educational games are excellent teacher tools, lesson aids, and exciting fun homework for informatics and ICT classes. Enjoy play-based learning activities online, master your hardware history concepts, and discover fun educational games for students and fun educational games for kids!

Did You Know? The Insane Jump in Power

In just one decade (between 2008 and 2018), the computing power of the world's fastest machine multiplied by over 100 times! In 2008, the IBM Roadrunner made history as the first computer to break the 1 PetaFLOP barrier. By 2018, the IBM Summit was clocking in at an unbelievable 122.3 PetaFLOPS. The evolution of supercomputing performance has consistently followed a staggering exponential curve.

How to play Top 9 Supercomputers

Look at the top of the screen: there are 9 photos of historic supercomputers. Drag and drop them into the correct slot below, using the hints provided by the FLOPS statistics, the year they held the "world's fastest" title, and their country's flag. Sort all 9 supercomputers perfectly to win the game. Have fun learning about the history of peak performance computing with these browser-based educational games for kids!

Knowledge Achievements:
Place the 9 fastest supercomputers in order to win and get +1 Knowledge Level.
Difficulty: Medium.

Top 9 Supercomputers 2018 Interactive IT Education Game

Class Subject: The Top Supercomputers to 2018

Since 1993, the fastest supercomputers have been ranked on the famous TOP500 list according to their LINPACK benchmark results. Here are the titans of computing that held the crown up until 2018, which you will arrange in the game:

2018

IBM Summit

122.3 PFLOPS

Oak Ridge, U.S.

2016

Sunway TaihuLight

93.01 PFLOPS

Wuxi, China

2013

NUDT Tianhe-2

33.86 PFLOPS

Guangzhou, China

2012

Cray Titan

17.59 PFLOPS

Oak Ridge, U.S.

2012

IBM Sequoia

17.17 PFLOPS

Livermore, U.S.

2011

Fujitsu K computer

10.51 PFLOPS

Kobe, Japan

2010

Tianhe-IA

2.566 PFLOPS

Tianjin, China

2009

Cray Jaguar

1.759 PFLOPS

Oak Ridge, U.S.

2008

IBM Roadrunner

1.026 PFLOPS

Los Alamos, U.S.

Questions and Answers!

• Who built the very first supercomputer?
The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is generally considered the world's first true supercomputer. It was designed by Seymour Cray, a legend in the field, who used innovative designs and parallelism to achieve peak performance.

• What does PFLOPS mean?
PFLOPS stands for Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second. One PetaFLOP equals one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second! Before the PetaFLOP era, computers were measured in TeraFLOPS (trillions) or GigaFLOPS (billions).

• Are these computers just one big machine?
No! By the end of the 20th century, engineers realised it was better to build "massively parallel" supercomputers. This means they connect thousands (or even millions) of "off-the-shelf" processors, very similar to the ones inside modern personal computers, and network them together to act as a single hive mind.