Supercomputing important applications in the field of intelligence collection, cracking, supercomputing ability to lead, the original can crack the 64-bit password, now upgraded on the 128-bit can be cracked, it can be forcibly broken into the other side of the security system, get the intelligence.
Additionally, supercomputers are also good at screening intelligence, Prism program shows that the United States spends huge sums of money to collect the privacy of all countries, including the massive amount of information about ordinary people, which requires timely processing of massive information, especially counter-terrorism has a timeliness, and as soon as possible to screen out the valuable intelligence, supercomputers will show great value.
2, nuclear weapons security
For the United States, the role of supercomputing is first in the development of nuclear weapons, the United States, many of the supercomputers are involved in maintaining the safety of nuclear arsenals. Through supercomputing to establish a mathematical model of nuclear explosions, in-depth understanding of the principles of nuclear explosions, research and development of a new generation of nuclear weapons.
3, leading the trend of information technology
Supercomputing is the leader in the development of computer information technology, a lot of processor technology, virtualization technology, quantum computing, etc., are the earliest supercomputing services, and then popularized civilian.
The current cloud computing and big data, computing power also need the support of supercomputing technology. Cloud computing is to run a large number of small tasks at the same time, there is no relationship between the tasks, the industry known as high-throughput computing. Big data do data mining, mainly graph algorithms. And supercomputing has the highest requirements, it pursues performance, to calculate a single task in the shortest possible time. Behind them all is the requirement of computational power, so they can also be called generalized supercomputing.
4, weather forecasting
Weather forecasting accuracy improvement, behind all is the work of supercomputing. Rain or not the key to see the cloud movement, there is no supercomputing before the observation of cloud accuracy is in accordance with the latitude and longitude, with supercomputing, you can accurately simulate and observe the cloud movement.
5, looking for airplanes, catching stealing
Looking for crashed planes, a large number of satellite radar collected information, data processing needs to be handed over to the supercomputer. As long as there is enough accurate and relevant data, you can find the target.
Through supercomputing simulation, the concentration and distribution of air pollutants can be calculated for a period of time in the future based on the current pollutant situation, and air quality forecasting can be carried out. From the forecast results, we can also calculate which pollution sources "contribute" the most, understand the ins and outs of pollution, and provide decision-making guidance for pollution prevention and control.
6, the medical application of supercomputers, both genetic sequencing, fundamentally cracking the "code" of human life, from the point of view of genetic repair to avoid a lot of congenital diseases, but also in the millions of drug components, to choose the most appropriate ratio for the development of new drugs.