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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Just don’t give them a supercomputer connected to everyone in the world.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In the bones of an empty factory along the Mississippi River, xAI’s supercomputer came together in just four months.
    — Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024

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