Traditionally the price of Supercomputers have been at least 10 times the price of standard large mainframe computers of the same time period. The price also varied with the model of Supercomputer in a given line (e.g. economy or standard CPU, quantity of memory, speed grade of memory). Early Supercomputers were high performance uniprocessors or high performance uniprocessors with low performance input/output multiprocessors. Only much later did Supercomputer multiprocessors appear using massive numbers of inexpensive commodity microprocessors. However that factor of 10 in price has generally followed.
Supercomputers can cost anywhere from a few million to hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on their capabilities and specifications.
The average cost of supercomputers typically ranges from 500 million to 1 billion.
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Airplanes not necessarily use supercomputers but, supercomputers are used to design airplanes. One of the many uses of supercomputers is to model how wind and turbulence affect an airplane. Supercomputers are also used in advanced flight simulators.
Pretty much anything. from smartwatches to supercomputers and everywhere inbetween.
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allows more powerful computing devices in much smaller space at much lower cost. just think, the cheapest laptop today has thousands of times the computing power in an insignificant space at far less than one thousandth the cost of the most expensive supercomputers of the 1960s and 1970s!!!!
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