How to Use supercomputer in a Sentence

supercomputer

noun
  • 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
  • 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 supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Movies have the luxury of being able to task supercomputers with rendering a single frame of CGI footage for hours, van Beek explained.
    Lewis Gordon, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • That turned out to be much harder—as in, no one was able to solve for those integers for 65 years until a supercomputer finally came up with the solution to 42.
    Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In this 1983 sci-fi thriller, Matthew Broderick stars as a hacker who finds his way into a supercomputer that attempts to kick off war with the Soviet Union.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • The Colts head coach is always thinking ahead, his mind whirring through possible futures like a supercomputer trying to beat a grandmaster at the game of chess.
    The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • The machine is a room-scale supercomputer that draws 1.1 megawatts at full capacity.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Yatskov was hired in January to help build a cooling system for Tesla's in-house supercomputer.
    Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 9 May 2022
  • Frontera is the fastest supercomputer located on a college campus in the U.S.
    Dallas News, 14 July 2022
  • Dolores instead gives control of the Rehoboam to Caleb to deactivate it, as only a human can destroy the supercomputer through a pure act of free will.
    Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2022
  • The chip is so large that the scale of memory, bandwidth, compute resources, and other stuff in the new supercomputers quickly gets a bit ridiculous, as the following graphic shows.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2023
  • Yatskov was hired in January to work on Dojo, the supercomputer Tesla is building to train its self-driving software.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 May 2022
  • So these scientists have access to supercomputers now that can crunch ever greater amounts of data.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Three of the five astronauts are cryogenically frozen for the ride, while the remaining two are assisted by a supercomputer called HAL 9000.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Meta—which rebranded from Facebook to be named after the metaverse—is at work on the world’s most powerful supercomputer, in order to power the metaverse.
    Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Yes, the Meta RSC supercomputer is impressive, without a doubt.
    Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The machines made up a new supercomputer that had become operational just last month.
    Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 20 July 2023

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