supercomputer

supercomputer
Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its day; typically they use more than one core and are housed in large clean rooms with high air flow to permit cooling. Typical uses are weather forecasting, nuclear simulations and animations.

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  • supercomputer — 1968, from SUPER (Cf. super ) + COMPUTER (Cf. computer) …   Etymology dictionary

  • supercomputer — ► NOUN ▪ a particularly powerful mainframe computer …   English terms dictionary

  • supercomputer — [so͞o′pər kəm pyo͞ot΄ər] n. an extremely fast and expensive computer, typically used for such complex tasks as scientific simulations, weather forecasting, etc …   English World dictionary

  • Supercomputer — A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation (at the time of its introduction). The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 [cite book |last=Eames …   Wikipedia

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  • supercomputer — /sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr, sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications. [SUPER + COMPUTER] * * * Any of a class of extremely powerful digital computers. The …   Universalium

  • supercomputer — UK [ˌsuːpə(r)kəmˈpjuːtə(r)] / US [ˌsupərkəmˈpjutər] noun [countable] Word forms supercomputer : singular supercomputer plural supercomputers computing a very powerful computer that can deal with large amounts of information very quickly …   English dictionary

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