supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er
ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyü-tər 
: a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
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In Austin, Texas, where Tesla is based, the company is building the Dojo supercomputer, which is expected to be used for training Tesla’s algorithm models for the Full Self-Driving system.
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William Gavin, Quartz, 17 May 2024
The visualization, produced on a NASA supercomputer, allows users to experience flight towards a supermassive black hole.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 May 2024
Death Skull went to the den and flicked on his supercomputer.
—Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
This translates to energy efficiency one hundred times as high as the most efficient supercomputer today.
—Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
The company has put together facilities for Microsoft, with input from OpenAI, sources say, and is hosting a supercomputer data center for Nvidia in Plano, Texas, according to the chipmaker.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 3 May 2024
Making quantum computers that can solve useful problems beyond the scope of even the mightiest of today’s classical supercomputers demands scaling them up even more — to perhaps many tens or hundreds of thousands of qubits.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, Microsoft is developing a supercomputer for the fourth phase of the installment that is expected to launch in 2026, and both companies are on the third phase of the plan.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
By assigning a geographic area to every species in the study, and then using the DNA tree and supercomputers to calculate the probability that their ancestors were there in the past, researchers were able to form a hypothesis about the spread of butterflies around the world.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
William Gavin, Quartz, 17 May 2024
The visualization, produced on a NASA supercomputer, allows users to experience flight towards a supermassive black hole.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 May 2024
Death Skull went to the den and flicked on his supercomputer.
—Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
This translates to energy efficiency one hundred times as high as the most efficient supercomputer today.
—Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
The company has put together facilities for Microsoft, with input from OpenAI, sources say, and is hosting a supercomputer data center for Nvidia in Plano, Texas, according to the chipmaker.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 3 May 2024
Making quantum computers that can solve useful problems beyond the scope of even the mightiest of today’s classical supercomputers demands scaling them up even more — to perhaps many tens or hundreds of thousands of qubits.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, Microsoft is developing a supercomputer for the fourth phase of the installment that is expected to launch in 2026, and both companies are on the third phase of the plan.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
By assigning a geographic area to every species in the study, and then using the DNA tree and supercomputers to calculate the probability that their ancestors were there in the past, researchers were able to form a hypothesis about the spread of butterflies around the world.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
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supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er
ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyüt-ər
: a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
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