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Recent Examples of supercluster
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.
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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
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
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
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
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
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
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
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
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The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
29 Nov. 2024
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Space is a major source of gamma-rays, with these high energy photons created in various powerful cosmic events like the supernova death of massive stars and objects like the disks of gas and dust that surround feeding supermassive black holes and rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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The latter helped refine the locations of these pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars.—
John Loeffler,
Space.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a new video, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on a bevy of new variables and strings found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December).—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
26 Feb. 2025
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But this year saw a freak variable that prompted DraftKings to adjust the lines.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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However, if the white dwarf progenitor star exists in a binary with another star, this stellar corpse can begin vampirically stripping material from its companion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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