supercomputer
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- supercomputing noun
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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.
The federally funded research center employs about 830 staff, making it one of the largest consortia of scientists who study weather, climate and Earth systems using advanced models and supercomputers in the world.
From Los Angeles Times
In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar constant far beyond the classroom, with powerful supercomputers now calculating pi to trillions of decimal places.
From Science Daily
Forecasters look at data produced by several different weather supercomputers generated over different timescales.
From BBC
Researchers used high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and at MAX IV in Sweden, along with the UK national supercomputer ARCHER2.
From Science Daily
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