supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyü-tər 
: a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Warner’s strategy presumably requires now a supercomputer to optimize monetization of hours upon hours of new and old movies and TV episodes, each decision complicated by back-end rights owed to producers and performers. 
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022 Future president born today, supercomputer predicts. Wired, 8 July 2022 Vector processing, where instructions manipulate data across a large dataset of numbers, has been a foundation of high-performance computing since the Cray 1 supercomputer in 1975. Karl Freund, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 As an example, one of the most advanced AI language models for creating realistic human-quality text, the GPT-3, requires 300 zetta-FLOPS (a measure of supercomputer performance) to train on a high-performance compute cloud. Mark Liu, Fortune, 8 June 2022 Garry Kasparov, probably the greatest chess player in history, lost to an IBM supercomputer in 1997. Kannan Amaresh, Forbes, 17 May 2022 The team, which grew to more than a hundred and twenty researchers, used nine supercomputer processing centers to sequence and analyze the genomes of forty-eight birds. Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 An even larger supercomputer could execute the algorithm in dozens of seconds, says physicist Pan Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sophia Chen, Wired, 11 July 2022 Little is known about the company's Project Dojo supercomputer, first unveiled at Tesla AI Day in August. Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 9 May 2022 See More
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022 Future president born today, supercomputer predicts. Wired, 8 July 2022 Vector processing, where instructions manipulate data across a large dataset of numbers, has been a foundation of high-performance computing since the Cray 1 supercomputer in 1975. Karl Freund, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 As an example, one of the most advanced AI language models for creating realistic human-quality text, the GPT-3, requires 300 zetta-FLOPS (a measure of supercomputer performance) to train on a high-performance compute cloud. Mark Liu, Fortune, 8 June 2022 Garry Kasparov, probably the greatest chess player in history, lost to an IBM supercomputer in 1997. Kannan Amaresh, Forbes, 17 May 2022 The team, which grew to more than a hundred and twenty researchers, used nine supercomputer processing centers to sequence and analyze the genomes of forty-eight birds. Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 An even larger supercomputer could execute the algorithm in dozens of seconds, says physicist Pan Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sophia Chen, Wired, 11 July 2022 Little is known about the company's Project Dojo supercomputer, first unveiled at Tesla AI Day in August. Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 9 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1949, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyü-tər
: a large very fast computer used especially for scientific computations