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supercomputer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mainframe, mainframe computer |
Examples of supercomputer
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Last week they asked for research council funds to buy a new mini-supercomputer.
From the newscientist.com
The processors are linked so closely that they can act as a, well, supercomputer.
From the dispatch.com
However, experiment and supercomputer calculations are made at high resolution.
From the sciencedaily.com
Supercomputer HAL 9000 guides astronauts on a trip to find the origins of humans.
From the post-gazette.com
From this view, the first computer was, by definition, the first supercomputer.
From the economist.com
These days, it is not necessary to design and build a supercomputer from scratch.
From the economist.com
They believe similar circuits could outpace a supercomputer on specialised tasks.
From the newscientist.com
This heart runs on Europe's largest supercomputer, and might just save your life.
From the newscientist.com
He then gives Webster a series of crudely drawn blueprints for a supercomputer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time
- A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. ...
- Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its day; typically they use more than one core and are housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling. Typical uses are weather forecasting, nuclear simulations and animations
- (supercomputing) The design and use of supercomputers
- (Supercomputers) introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research.
- (n.) a time dependent term which refers to the class of most powerful computer systems worldwide at the time of reference. See also concurrent computer, parallel computer.
- An extremely fast computer that can perform hundreds of millions of instructions per second.
- A computer that is especially designed to receive, process and present very large amounts of data very quickly. The Cray Y-MP is an example of a supercomputer that is resident at NASA Ames Research Center and is used for CFD.
- An extremely powerful computer; designed to deal with large amounts of data at very high speed, often used for military or scientific tasks.
