Ari's Technology Blog

The strongest computer in the world Most of you guys probably know what a computer is. It’s a box with components inside, but did u know that there is a computer that is about x25000 stronger than an average computer.   That computer is called summit the supercomputer. Taking up 5,600 square-feet of floor space and weighing in at over 340 tons, which is more than a commercial aircraft, Summit is a truly massive system that would easily fill two tennis courts. Summit is connected with 185 miles of fiber optic cables. Also summit can store 250 petabytes of data, which is equal to 74 years of HD video. Computer need air cooling or water cooling to keep themselves cool, so they can work well. Summit use 170000 liter of water to keep himself cool so he could work as good as he can. Average computer have 1 processor and one graphics card when summit actually have 9000 of each of those. Basically this computer is the strongest in the world. .  

The computer that beat the Enigma In ww2 the Germans used a machine called ''Enigma'' to transfer massages around the world about the military activities that will happen in the future. That machine couldn’t be decrypted because every day the Germans changed the order of the code. Because of that, the British government didn’t know when the next attack of the German will be. So, the British government convene the smartest people in their country to find a way to decrypt the Enigma. One guy did it, his name is Alan Turning. He built a computer that called ''Bombe''. . Bombe was produced in 1939 at the UK government code and cypher school. The Bombe was designed to discover some of the daily settings of the Enigma. Because of that the British    Americans the Germans and won the war .