supercomputer
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noun
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- supercomputing noun
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Unlike rivals focused on single categories, Lenovo was the only major manufacturer whose offering spanned laptops, tablets and smartphones -- under its Motorola brand, acquired in 2014 -- as well as servers and even supercomputers.
From Barron's
The platform itself comprises "six chips that make one AI supercomputer," said Dion Harris, Nvidia's director of data center and high-performance computing.
From Barron's
Somewhere in a Google lab, a chip called Willow just computed the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.
From MarketWatch
Continuing that tradition, Zhang and his colleagues were granted access to two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory.
From Science Daily
During the height of the Cold War, it was unthinkable for the U.S. to sell supercomputers to the Soviet Union, the equivalent of the GPUs today.
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