How to Use supercomputer in a Sentence

supercomputer

noun
  • And in this case, the record came at a much faster speed—good news for the supercomputer.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Death Skull went to the den and flicked on his supercomputer.
    Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • There’s a new king of the supercomputer standings, though the crown may not rest on it for too long.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 June 2020
  • The video fails to predict that the bot might one day come along in a pocket-sized supercomputer.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The schools run some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Models of this scale are so large, they can only be trained with supercomputers.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This brings the time down from weeks on a supercomputer to mere minutes on a single laptop.
    Andrej Prša, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • To create the xenobots in the first place, the team used a supercomputer to create a blueprint for a new life form.
    Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • That means the supercomputer had to keep churning out stars for much longer than expected.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Summit’s potential perch at the top of the fastest supercomputer list may be short-lived.
    Jay Greene, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Today, the phone in your pocket outpaces the supercomputers of that era in terms of raw power.
    Avery Pennarun, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Japan has unveiled plans to construct the world's fastest supercomputer.
    Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The heat generated by the supercomputer will not go to waste.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • The result was as predictable as a chess master losing to a supercomputer.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Yet, the list of top 500 supercomputers, counts fewer than five in the country.
    Som Satsangi, Quartz India, 26 Sep. 2019
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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    Ayo Akinwolere, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • What does the supercomputer say?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • This is beyond the reach of today’s supercomputers.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The coding language that runs its supercomputers dates back as far as the 1980s.
    Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • The team used supercomputer simulations of the atmosphere and found that the rise is driven by stronger wind shear in the jet stream.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That supercomputer sees everything — just like the device in Devs, which peers across time and space.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 July 2020
  • The two fastest supercomputers from China clock in at 93 and 33 petaflops.
    April Glaser, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The problem catapults to such an extent that even supercomputers cannot calculate to solve it.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Dropping to fifth place is the Jupiter supercomputer in Germany.
    ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • The Labs conduct cutting-edge research and have some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025

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