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 team then turned to supercomputer simulations of the universe run at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) to calculate emissions that should be seen from filamentary gas based on the standard model of cosmology, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
However, even with modern supercomputers, a direct and accurate simulation of all but the simplest turbulent flows remains out of reach, and a complete understanding of turbulence has eluded researchers for some 200 years.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
And the best supercomputers today can handle a quintillion—that is, a billion billion—operations per second.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The Singularity, published three years earlier, during the same affair, concerns a scientist who turns a mountain into a supercomputer and gives it the personality of his dead wife, a younger woman who was persistently unfaithful to him.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
However, even with modern supercomputers, a direct and accurate simulation of all but the simplest turbulent flows remains out of reach, and a complete understanding of turbulence has eluded researchers for some 200 years.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
And the best supercomputers today can handle a quintillion—that is, a billion billion—operations per second.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The Singularity, published three years earlier, during the same affair, concerns a scientist who turns a mountain into a supercomputer and gives it the personality of his dead wife, a younger woman who was persistently unfaithful to him.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 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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