supercomputer
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The calculations were performed with Tetralith, a Swedish supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center at Linköping University.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The new supercomputer will be 50 times more powerful, and Prof Parsons says it will work on challenges that are "simply not possible on other computers".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
China’s LineShine system won the No. 1 spot on the latest Top500 supercomputer ranking released this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The data is then sent to supercomputer clusters, where it’s transformed into images.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Sometimes I would stare at her and I knew I could see more inside her than anyone else, and all I could see was the whirring light complex of a supercomputer.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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