How to Use supercomputer in a Sentence
supercomputer
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And in this case, the record came at a much faster speed—good news for the supercomputer.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2021 -
The rows of printers look like a dead ringer for IBM supercomputer rooms of the 1960s.
— Diana Budds, Curbed, 6 May 2022 -
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 -
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 -
The supercomputer then at Oak Ridge, named Jaguar, used up to about 8.2 megawatts per hour, says Nichols.
— Doug Strickland, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021 -
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 -
The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game.
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021 -
Yet, the list of top 500 supercomputers, counts fewer than five in the country.
— Som Satsangi, Quartz India, 26 Sep. 2019 -
The program ran for 26 months on the Hazel Hen supercomputer in Germany.
— Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019 -
Since the 1990s the power of supercomputers has increased by a factor of a million or so.
— Jeremy Smith, The Conversation, 3 June 2020 -
Today, the phone in your pocket outpaces the supercomputers of that era in terms of raw power.
— Avery Pennarun, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 -
The achievement meant that the two most powerful supercomputers in the world are now powered by AMD chips.
— Billy Perrigo, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Summit’s potential perch at the top of the fastest supercomputer list may be short-lived.
— Jay Greene, WSJ, 8 June 2018 -
Deep Blue, a nearly 3,000-pound, one-of-a-kind supercomputer, could hardly change the game by itself.
— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2022 -
That means the supercomputer had to keep churning out stars for much longer than expected.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2019 -
Models of this scale are so large, they can only be trained with supercomputers.
— Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023 -
The Traveling Salesman Problem on a graph of a few hundred points would take years to run on a supercomputer.
— Jie Wang, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023 -
But that might finally be about to change, as the world’s new fastest supercomputer is now online within the borders of the United States.
— Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2018 -
In the summer of 2017, the authorities unveiled the Ürümqi Cloud Computing Center, a supercomputer that ranked among the fastest in the world.
— David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021 -
Over the years, however, many of these companies have been involved in the Top500 list of supercomputers.
— Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 21 June 2019 -
The sensors in the ice pass their readings to a mini-supercomputer sitting on the surface that crunches the data in real time.
— Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 June 2020 -
Tesla can also offer a ton of compute in the form of its Dojo supercomputer, though there are issues with the idea of xAI tapping in.
— David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023 -
That supercomputer sees everything — just like the device in Devs, which peers across time and space.
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 July 2020 -
At 70 qubits, a Summit-like classical supercomputer would have to be the size of a city to possess the same processing power.
— Neil Savage, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2019 -
Japan has unveiled plans to construct the world's fastest supercomputer.
— Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024 -
For much of the year, Iowa’s weather is cool enough for Microsoft to use outside air to keep the supercomputer running properly and vent heat out of the building.
— Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The quantum chip would handle a specific part of the simulation, while the supercomputer does the rest.
— Sophia Chen, Wired, 11 July 2022 -
For a supercomputer with unlimited power that could track the exact state of every particle in the universe, entropy would always remain constant — since no information would be lost — and time would cease to flow.
— Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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