Definitions for supercomputer
ˈsu pər kəmˌpyu tər, ˌsu pər kəmˈpyu tərsu·per·com·put·er

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1. supercomputernoun

   a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time

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1. supercomputernoun

   Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its day; typically they use more than one core and are housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling. Typical uses are weather forecasting, nuclear simulations and animations.

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1. Supercomputer

   A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Since 2017, there have existed supercomputers which can perform over 1017 FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or 100 PFLOPS). For comparison, a desktop computer has performance in the range of hundreds of gigaFLOPS (1011) to tens of teraFLOPS (1013). Since November 2017, all of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers run on Linux-based operating systems. Additional research is being conducted in the United States, the European Union, Taiwan, Japan, and China to build faster, more powerful and technologically superior exascale supercomputers.Supercomputers play an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulations of the early moments of the universe, airplane and spacecraft aerodynamics, the detonation of nuclear weapons, and nuclear fusion). They have been essential in the field of cryptanalysis.Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. The first such machines were highly tuned conventional designs that ran more quickly than their more general-purpose contemporaries. Through the decade, increasing amounts of parallelism were added, with one to four processors being typical. In the 1970s, vector processors operating on large arrays of data came to dominate. A notable example is the highly successful Cray-1 of 1976. Vector computers remained the dominant design into the 1990s. From then until today, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of off-the-shelf processors became the norm.The US has long been the leader in the supercomputer field, first through Cray's almost uninterrupted dominance of the field, and later through a variety of technology companies. Japan made major strides in the field in the 1980s and 90s, with China becoming increasingly active in the field. As of May 2022, the fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 supercomputer list is Frontier, in the US, with a LINPACK benchmark score of 1.102 ExaFlop/s, followed by Fugaku. The US has five of the top 10; China has two; Japan, Finland, and France have one each. In June 2018, all combined supercomputers on the TOP500 list broke the 1 exaFLOPS mark.

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1. supercomputer

   A supercomputer is a high-performance computing machine with an extremely high level of processing capability due to its powerful memory systems, great multitude of processors and high-speed networking elements. It is specifically designed to perform complex and large-scale scientific and engineering tasks that are computationally intensive, such as quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, and molecular modeling.

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1. Supercomputer

   A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity – particularly speed of calculation. The term "Super Computing" was first used in the New York World in 1929 to refer to large custom-built tabulators that IBM had made for Columbia University. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, designed initially and, for decades, primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation, Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm. As of November 2012, the Cray Titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world: at 17.6 PetaFLOPS, it is almost 20 billion times faster than the first supercomputer. For comparison purposes, that is the difference between the top speed of a common sloth vs. the speed of light in a vacuum. Systems with massive numbers of processors generally take one of two paths: In one approach, a large number of discrete computers distributed across a network devote some or all of their time to solving a common problem; each individual computer receives and completes many small tasks, reporting the results to a central server which integrates the task results from all the clients into the overall solution. In another approach, a large number of dedicated processors are placed in close proximity to each other; this saves considerable time moving data around and makes it possible for the processors to work together, for example in mesh and hypercube architectures.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of supercomputer in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of supercomputer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of supercomputer in a Sentence

1. Satoshi Sekiguchi:

   The supercomputer that is currently under development would take up about 1,000 square meters of floor space.

2. Tristan Harris:

   You have a supercomputer pointed at your brain, it's a race between Facebook's voodoo doll, where you flick your finger and they predict what to show you next, and Google's voodoo doll.

3. Satoshi Sekiguchi:

   A supercomputer is an extremely important tool for accelerating the advancement in such fields.

4. Mark Fernandez:

   Having a supercomputer onboard the spacecraft will allow our deep space explorers to access the data they need to meet any challenge in real time, but first we need to figure out how to make a supercomputer function flawlessly in orbit. That’s what we aim to research through this experiment.

5. Jared Leto:

   I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=supercomputer
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Supercomputer
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=supercomputer
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=supercomputer