Everything about Supercomputer

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SupercomputerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: GROMACS in the Cloud: A Global Supercomputer to Speed Up Alchemical Drug DesignInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: I, RobotThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer: system and applicationsCited 395 times
5. Go sideways: High-performance computingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: History of supercomputingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer: system and applications

  Haohuan Fu, Junfeng Liao, Jinzhe Yang · 2016 · Science China Information Sciences · 395 citations

• Hydrodynamics of Fiuidizatlon and Heat Transfer: Supercomputer Modeling

  Dimitri Gidaspow · 1986 · Applied Mechanics Reviews · 275 citations

• Anomalous Transport Scaling in the DIII-D Tokamak Matched by Supercomputer Simulation

  J. Candy, R. E. Waltz · 2003 · Physical Review Letters · 254 citations

• JURECA: Modular supercomputer at Jülich Supercomputing Centre

  Dorian Krause, Philipp Thörnig · 2018 · Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRF · 252 citations

• A domain-specific supercomputer for training deep neural networks

  Norman P. Jouppi, Doe Hyun Yoon, George Kurian · 2020 · Communications of the ACM · 244 citations

• The Cydra 5 departmental supercomputer: design philosophies, decisions, and trade-offs

  B.R. Rau, D.W.L. Yen, Wei Yen · 1989 · Computer · 223 citations

• Supercomputer Lomonosov-2: Large Scale, Deep Monitoring and Fine Analytics for the User Community

  · 2019 · Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations · 197 citations

• “Zhores” — Petaflops supercomputer for data-driven modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence installed in Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

  Igor Zacharov, Rinat Arslanov, Maksim Gunin · 2019 · Open Engineering · 195 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• GROMACS in the Cloud: A Global Supercomputer to Speed Up Alchemical Drug Design

  Carsten Kutzner, Christian Kniep, Austin Cherian · 2022 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 128 citations

• Chemistry beyond the scale of exact diagonalization on a quantum-centric supercomputer

  Javier Robledo-Moreno, Mario Motta, Holger Haas · 2025 · Science Advances · 125 citations

• TianheGraph: Customizing Graph Search for Graph500 on Tianhe Supercomputer

  Xinbiao Gan, Yiming Zhang, Ruibo Wang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 100 citations

• A hybrid deep learning paradigm for carotid plaque tissue characterization and its validation in multicenter cohorts using a supercomputer framework

  Sanagala S. Skandha, Andrew Nicolaides, Suneet K. Gupta · 2022 · Computers in Biology and Medicine · 67 citations

• The Exascale Era is Upon Us: The Frontier supercomputer may be the first to reach 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second

  David Schneider · 2022 · IEEE Spectrum · 59 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• I, RobotIsaac Asimov · 1950
• Junkyard PlanetH. Beam Piper, H. Bean Piper · 1631
• Digital FortressDan Brown · 1998
• Distributed SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen · 2001
• SupercomputingVladimir Voevodin, Sergey Sobolev · 2017
• Supercomputer architecturePaul B. Schneck · 1987
• 📕U.S. supercomputer industryUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology · 1989
• First International Conference on Supercomputing SystemsInternational Conference on Supercomputing Systems (1st 1985 Saint Petersburg, Fla.) · 1985

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🔗 Related topics

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