supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er
ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyü-tər 
: a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
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Despite facing cuts to academic research under the Trump administration, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is financing a new $20-million supercomputer built by the Georgia Institute of Technology that will use AI to advance science, the university said Tuesday.
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Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 17 July 2025
Physicists outside of Britain and France are likely to head any Euro-project to build a bomb, and would likely rely on sophisticated next-generation simulation software—run on supercomputers—to test each advance made in this quest.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
And restoring funding for the Edinburgh supercomputer suggests the message landed with Starmer and Reeves.
—Ian King, CNBC, 18 June 2025
The company’s use of gas turbines to power the supercomputer, Colossus, runs afoul of environmental regulations and is worsening pollution in the area, the Southern Environmental Law Center, which represents the NAACP, wrote in a letter to xAI.
—Bracey Harris, NBC news, 17 June 2025
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Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 17 July 2025
Physicists outside of Britain and France are likely to head any Euro-project to build a bomb, and would likely rely on sophisticated next-generation simulation software—run on supercomputers—to test each advance made in this quest.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
And restoring funding for the Edinburgh supercomputer suggests the message landed with Starmer and Reeves.
—Ian King, CNBC, 18 June 2025
The company’s use of gas turbines to power the supercomputer, Colossus, runs afoul of environmental regulations and is worsening pollution in the area, the Southern Environmental Law Center, which represents the NAACP, wrote in a letter to xAI.
—Bracey Harris, NBC news, 17 June 2025
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supercomputer
noun
su·per·com·put·er
ˈsü-pər-kəm-ˌpyüt-ər
: a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations
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