RAM: This is your computer's temporary storage. Kind of like its short-term memory. The short of it is that higher RAM (measured in gigabytes) makes for a more powerful, faster computer. For mini ...
Supercomputing power is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The most powerful supercomputers in the world deliver a little over 1,000 petaFLOPS of power (1 quintillion FLOPS).