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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With quantum computing promising us computations that conventional supercomputers would take decades to complete, countries are keen to develop the technology as quickly as possible.
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
Willow was able to reduce errors exponentially by using more qubits and perform a standard benchmark computation in under 5 minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, the report said.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2026
Opta’s supercomputer faces similar problems, even when running 10,000 simulations of how the campaign will unfold using all manner of variables, including the quality of a team’s performances, fixtures, historical results and even Opta’s own power rankings.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Eventually, at the supercomputer facilities of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, algorithms designed to spot RFI sorted the wheat from the chaff, reducing those 12 billion to 1 million, then 1,000.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
Willow was able to reduce errors exponentially by using more qubits and perform a standard benchmark computation in under 5 minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, the report said.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2026
Opta’s supercomputer faces similar problems, even when running 10,000 simulations of how the campaign will unfold using all manner of variables, including the quality of a team’s performances, fixtures, historical results and even Opta’s own power rankings.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Eventually, at the supercomputer facilities of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, algorithms designed to spot RFI sorted the wheat from the chaff, reducing those 12 billion to 1 million, then 1,000.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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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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