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The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
Philip Emeagwali

Meaning of "supercomputer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERCOMPUTER

supercomputer  [ˌsuːpəkəmˈpjuːtə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERCOMPUTER

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Supercomputer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUPERCOMPUTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

supercomputer

Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of contemporary processing capacity – particularly speed of calculation which can happen at speeds of nanoseconds. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially and, for decades, primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation, Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm. As of November 2013, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS, or 33.86 quadrillion floating point operations per second. Systems with massive numbers of processors generally take one of two paths: In one approach, a large number of discrete computers distributed across a network devote some or all of their time...

Definition of supercomputer in the English dictionary

The definition of supercomputer in the dictionary is a powerful computer that can process large quantities of data of a similar type very quickly.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERCOMPUTER


commuter
kəˈmjuːtə
computer
kəmˈpjuːtə
disputer
dɪsˈpjuːtə
executer
ˈeksɪˌkjuːtə
imputer
ɪmˈpjuːtə
metacomputer
ˌmɛtəkəmˈpjuːtə
microcomputer
ˈmaɪkrəʊkəmˈpjuːtə
minicomputer
ˌmɪnɪkəmˈpjuːtə
neurocomputer
ˈnjʊərəʊkəmˌpjuːtə
neuter
ˈnjuːtə
noncomputer
ˌnɒnkəmˈpjuːtə
pewter
ˈpjuːtə
precomputer
ˌpriːkəmˈpjuːtə
prosecutor
ˈprɒsɪˌkjuːtə
sputa
ˈspjuːtə
sutor
ˈsjuːtə
telecommuter
ˌtelɪkəˈmjuːtə
transputer
trænzˈpjuːtə
tutor
ˈtjuːtə
uta
ˈjuːtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERCOMPUTER

supercoil
supercold
supercollider
supercolossal
supercolumnar
supercolumniation
supercomputing
superconduct
superconducting
superconduction
superconductive
superconductivity
superconductor
superconfidence
superconfident
supercontinent
superconvenient
supercool
supercop
supercover

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERCOMPUTER

analog computer
desknote computer
digital computer
home computer
host computer
hybrid computer
laptop computer
neural computer
notebook computer
on the outer
onboard computer
optical computer
outer
palmtop computer
personal computer
quantum computer
real-time computer
reduced instruction set computer
Reuter
router

Synonyms and antonyms of supercomputer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «supercomputer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUPERCOMPUTER

Find out the translation of supercomputer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of supercomputer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «supercomputer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

超级电脑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

superordenador
570 millions of speakers

English

supercomputer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुपर कंप्यूटर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العملاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суперкомпьютер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

supercomputador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুপারকম্পিউটার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

superordinateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Superkomputer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Supercomputer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スーパーコンピュータ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

슈퍼컴퓨터
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Superkomputer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

siêu máy tính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூப்பர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुपर कॉम्प्युटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Süper bilgisayar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

supercomputer
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

superkomputer
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

суперкомп´ютер
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supercomputer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερυπολογιστή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

supercomputer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

superdator
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

superdatamaskin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of supercomputer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERCOMPUTER»

The term «supercomputer» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.269 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERCOMPUTER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about supercomputer

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2 QUOTES WITH «SUPERCOMPUTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word supercomputer.
1
Philip Emeagwali
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
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Jared Leto
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERCOMPUTER»

Discover the use of supercomputer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to supercomputer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of ...
In this gripping account, Charles Wohlforth follows the two groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape. The scientists attempt to decipher its smallest elements and to derive from them a set of abstract laws and models.
Charles Wohlforth, 2005
2
Supercomputer
You read the read the operating instructions carefullyand turn on the power. Suddenly Conrad begins to talk. He already knows everything about you! Your new supercomputer is a genius. You can do almost anything with him!
Edward Packard, 1984
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An Agenda for Improved Evaluation of Supercomputer ...
Conclusion One Some of the methods, and corresponding metrics, used in the past are not well suited for the performance evaluation of current and future supercomputer systems . The questions central to the evaluation of supercomputer ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Supercomputer Performance and Development, E. F. Infante, 1986
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Supercomputer Pizzas
John Parsons. Splat! A huge lump of soft cheese hit Mr Tweed's back. Spit-pit-pit- pit-pit! Lots of pineapple pieces rained down on his head. Splat! A huge pile of red chilli peppers splattered on. 'Oh, yuck!" yelled Mr Tweed. Mr Tweed's ...
John Parsons, 2001
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US Black Engineer & IT
Supercomputing on Black Campuses By Marie E. Ferrey With NASA's donation of a $2.5 million supercomputer to Morgan State University (MSU), a supercomputing network among Black universities will be established, and engineering ...
6
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar
They imply that even 80386 and 68030 machines are simply uninteresting, and that I should design a supercomputer of one sort or another. Unfortunately, the problem with a supercomputer is that it takes super software to drive it. Remember ...
Steve Ciarcia, 1990
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Supercomputing Research Advances
The scientific centres world-wide having to re-write their existing system software to scale to the multi-teraflop systems that are being installed in their centres. Example of a supercomputer consists typically from 1000 processors to more than ...
Yongge Huáng, 2008
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Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing: IPDPS ...
In this paper, we show how application scheduling can be used to reduce the turn-around time of supercomputer jobs. Our approach focuses on the use of SA, an AppLeS application scheduler, to adaptively craft the request to be submitted to ...
Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph, 2000
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Frontiers of Supercomputing
WHAT IS A SUPERCOMPUTER? MOPS > f 10 TODAY 100 TOMORROW MEMORY f 1M WORDS TODAY 8-1 6M WORDS TOMORROW WORD SIZE -64 BITS Fig. 1. Characteristics of a supercomputer. Although these machines have been ...
Nicholas Metropolis, 1986
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 45 - ...
The decline of the dedicated parallel supercomputer has been compounded by the emergence of commodity-off-the- shelf clusters of personal computers (PCs) and workstations. The idea of the cluster is not new. but certain recent technical ...
Allen Kent, James G. Williams, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERCOMPUTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term supercomputer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer
President Obama has signed an executive order calling for the US to build the world's fastest computer by 2025. The supercomputer would be 20 times quicker ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
US chip block may delay China's 100 petaflop supercomputer
China's Tianhe-2 is the world's fastest supercomputer with a theoretical peak speed of 54.9 petaflops. It was scheduled to be expanded, and reach a new peak ... «Computerworld, Apr 15»
3
Energy Department to Spend $200 Million on New 'Aurora …
"The Aurora supercomputer will advance low-carbon energy technologies and our fundamental understanding of the universe," Undersecretary for Science and ... «NBCNews.com, Apr 15»
4
China Once Again Boasts The World's Fastest Supercomputer
Every six months, the Top500 Organization ranks the five hundred fastest supercomputers in the world. And for the fourth consecutive list, China's Tianhe-2 is on ... «Forbes, Nov 14»
5
US sets sights on 300 petaflop supercomputer
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials Friday announced plans to spend $325 million on two new supercomputers, one of which may eventually be built to support ... «Computerworld, Nov 14»
6
Defying drizzle: UK to build world's fastest weather forecasting …
When it's complete, the Met Office's new supercomputer will clock in at 16 petaflops — one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and more than twice as ... «ExtremeTech, Oct 14»
7
Cray to Build Supercomputer That Will Manage Nuclear Weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray a $174 million contract to develop a new machine ... «PC Magazine, Jul 14»
8
IBM unveils plans for Watson supercomputer
ibm watson Mike Rhodin, who leads IBM's new Watson Group, is excited about the business potential for the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. «CNNMoney, Jan 14»
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Top500 supercomputer rankings await speed-test shakeup
Monday's update to the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world showed only a single new system in the top 10. But bigger changes are afoot, because ... «CNET, Nov 13»
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China's Tianhe-2 Caps Top 10 Supercomputers
Every year, in June and in November, the Top500 list shows which supercomputers can crank out the most calculations per second. This go-around, the number ... «IEEE Spectrum, Jun 13»

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