NCSA Video on Demand -- Kids give us their take on supercomputers

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Kids give us their take on supercomputers

What are supercomputers? What do they do? What do they look like? How fast are they? NCSA recently asked some young visitors these questions and got some illuminating answers.

Posted: November 11, 2010

Running time: 3:02
A transcript of this video is available (PDF)
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~15 MB)

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If you cannot view the video you can download it at http://gladiator.ncsa.illinois.edu/vidcasts/kids/kids.mov (~15 MB).
PC users: Right-click the Quicktime link and select 'Save Target As...'
Mac users: Press the 'Control' key, click the Quicktime link and select 'Download linked file'