SUPERCOMPUTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supercomputer mean? 

• SUPERCOMPUTER (noun)
  The noun SUPERCOMPUTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SUPERCOMPUTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERCOMPUTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("supercomputer" is a kind of...):

mainframe; mainframe computer (a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room)

 Context examples 

The human brain is a mysterious supercomputer.

(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That's based on supercomputer simulations that identified a new phenomenon called intergalactic transfer, and it could help us unlock the secrets of how galaxies evolve.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from Google claimed to have reached ‘quantum supremacy’, the point at which a quantum computer can perform calculations beyond the capacity of the most powerful supercomputers.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

Quantum computers are the dream of modern physics as they could solve problems that are too difficult for today’s most powerful supercomputers, but creating them requires learning how to manage the elusive quantum particles, which are smaller than atoms.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Moradi and his team have addressed the problem of relying on X-ray crystallography by using a supercomputer at the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center to run continuous, microsecond-level computations simulating the molecular dynamics of membrane proteins.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)

The researchers took CT scans of the entire lung labyrinth and used two supercomputers — including one of the fastest systems in the world, Blue Waters — to simulate airflow patterns at the highest resolution.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

To perform this feat the group acquired 13,188 whole-mount pathology slide images of the prostate from Nippon Medical School Hospital (NMSH), The amount of data was enormous, equivalent to approximately 86 billion image patches (sub-images divided for deep neural networks), and the computation was performed on AIP's powerful RAIDEN supercomputer.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)