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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The area includes 17 industrial facilities and the air quality was deemed unhealthy due to smog even before the construction of the billionaire’s supercomputer, according to Politico.
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
Tech startup Atomic Canyon has harnessed the power of the Frontier supercomputer — the world’s first exascale machine, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) — to train the first nuclear-specific Artificial Intelligence models.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
After all, the play's key character is a supercomputer, absorbing information and throwing it back in our faces.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
Because the dataset included 38 million obituaries, the analysis ran on a supercomputer.
—Kyle Fiore Law, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
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Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
Tech startup Atomic Canyon has harnessed the power of the Frontier supercomputer — the world’s first exascale machine, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) — to train the first nuclear-specific Artificial Intelligence models.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
After all, the play's key character is a supercomputer, absorbing information and throwing it back in our faces.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
Because the dataset included 38 million obituaries, the analysis ran on a supercomputer.
—Kyle Fiore Law, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
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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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