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Recent Examples of supercluster
The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
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Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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In the late 1960s astronomers started to make extremely high-resolution observations of distant galaxies called quasars.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 Aug. 2025
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By the time Chappell Roan fended off Sabrina Carpenter to snag her first-ever Grammy, both had gone supernova.—
Lori Majewski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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One is an unusual type of supernova explosion that lasted much longer than those that typically release gamma rays, Levan said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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The characteristics of the supernova's hot gas, combined with the motion of the pulsar, allowed the team to determine the age of the system and its distance more precisely.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The album title is a reference to a red supergiant star 10,000 light-years away from Earth.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Skywatchers on Saturday night will be treated to the gorgeous sight of a waxing crescent moon close to Antares, an unmistakably bright red supergiant star shining in the south.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Change one variable slightly in the defensive pattern, and Barnes can give you an entirely different solution.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Suffice it to say, a double-big look with Valanciunas is another variable that could make the Nuggets immensely watchable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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This theoretical limit concerns how much matter can be accreted to a compact body like a neutron star or black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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Next up, the team hopes to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study the white dwarf and the exo-Pluto in infrared light.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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