The concept

performance and applications of supercomputers are described. Some typical kinds of current supercomputers are introduced briefly. Recently the rapidly increasing demands

for very higher throughput and computing power to handle very large amounts of data and very big problems

are forcing computer system designers to consider development of high performance supercomputers by improving integral circuits

architectures

software and algorithms. This is the total tendency of supercomputers evolution. At the end of this paper

a forecast is given for the supercomputer progress in this decade.