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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The result was as predictable as a chess master losing to a supercomputer.
— Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020 -
The 16-system supercomputer, called Summit, looks like a data center and takes up as much space as two tennis courts.
— Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2020 -
The researchers used four supercomputers in Europe and the United States to process the data, tracing the feeding habits and migrations of the butterfly species over time.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 May 2023 -
In your hands sits a supercomputer that, if the technology existed just a few decades ago, would have cost tens of millions to produce.
— John Tamny, Forbes, 23 May 2021 -
Movies have the luxury of being able to task supercomputers with rendering a single frame of CGI footage for hours, van Beek explained.
— Lewis Gordon, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023 -
That turned out to be much harder—as in, no one was able to solve for those integers for 65 years until a supercomputer finally came up with the solution to 42.
— Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022 -
Tennessee is already home to the world’s most powerful supercomputer, which is located in the eastern part of the state.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 June 2024 -
In this 1983 sci-fi thriller, Matthew Broderick stars as a hacker who finds his way into a supercomputer that attempts to kick off war with the Soviet Union.
— Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 June 2023
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