supercomputer
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- noun
- /ˈsuːpərˌkəmˈpjuːtər/
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supercomputadora (América Latina)
- Complex calculations that would take regular computers years to finish can be completed in seconds by a supercomputer.
- network of supercomputers
- supercomputer technology
- supercomputer applications
Ah yes, IBM and NVIDIA launched supercomputer Centers of Excellence.
- Ah yes, IBM and NVIDIA launched supercomputer Centers of Excellence.
- I mean, we now have the second largest supercomputer in the world today.
- Today's smartphones are much more powerful than yesterday's supercomputers.
- I mean, this is a supercomputer in my pocket now, but think about it, right?
- Tom, he built his own supercomputer.
- Another area like this where where we suck up an enormous amount of supercomputer time to do physics is black hole collisions.
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We understand galaxy formation after throwing the most powerful supercomputers at the problem.
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"So it could take 24 hours on a supercomputer to get a good run, and you might need 20 runs.
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I mean, we now have the second largest supercomputer in the world today.
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The model ran for ten hours on the supercomputer before it was finished.
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So LL Grid is the core supercomputer at Lincoln Laboratory.
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A supercomputer can do over a trillion mathematical equations in one second.
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These new systems can solve complex problems that the day's fastest supercomputers would take thousands of years to solve.
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So we need to calculate what this fingerprint looks like and that requires usually huge amount of supercomputer time to analyse all of this data.
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Today, the combined computing power of this global network is greater than the 500 biggest supercomputers combined, times 10,000!
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In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat the world's best chess player, Gary Kasparov.
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Synonyms
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A very large, powerful computer used by organizations to process lots of data for many users
A computer that does many math calculations very quickly
How Powerful
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Etymology
Supercomputer combines super and computer, and super means 'above' or 'beyond', like in superman or supermarket. So a supercomputer is a computer that is 'above' ordinary ones, very fast and powerful for huge calculations.