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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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.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Combing through those files ultimately required enlisting the help of a supercomputer—in this case an installation at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
But his real gift is his mind, a basketball supercomputer, and the underlying reason Radford took a chance on Chu, 33, as its head coach, despite his glaring absence of college coaching experience.
—Brendan Marks, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
The vehicle is powered by an in-vehicle supercomputer built around eight NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor system-on-chips based on the Blackwell GPU architecture.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Combing through those files ultimately required enlisting the help of a supercomputer—in this case an installation at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
But his real gift is his mind, a basketball supercomputer, and the underlying reason Radford took a chance on Chu, 33, as its head coach, despite his glaring absence of college coaching experience.
—Brendan Marks, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
The vehicle is powered by an in-vehicle supercomputer built around eight NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor system-on-chips based on the Blackwell GPU architecture.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 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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