Most Expensive supercomputers

 "Atlas", the first supercomputer was developed and installed at the University of Manchester, UK in the 60s of previous century.

The failure of this supercomputer could lead to a reduction of 50 percent of computational efficiency of the country. At present, "Atlas" is weaker than an ordinary laptop.

The rating of most expensive supercomputers is as follows:

"IBM Roadrunner" (USA) - $ 130 million USD

"Vulcan BlueGene/Q" (USA) - $ 100 million USD

"SuperMUC" (Germany) - 111 million USD

"Trinity" (USA) - $ 174 million USD

"Sequoia BlueGene / Q" (USA) - $ 250 million USD

"ASC Purple" and "The BlueGene / L" (USA) - 290 million USD

"Sierra" and "Summit" (USA) - 325 million USD

"Tianhe-2" (China) - $ 390 million USD

"Earth Simulator" (Japan) - $ 500 million USD

Fujitsu K (Japan) - $ 1.2 billion USD

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