supercomputer
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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
Washington curtailed Chinese supercomputer developers’ access to Intel chips and other American hardware in 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Prof Mark Parsons, the director of the supercomputer project at the university, says it will be roughly the size of a medium-sized supermarket.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
The data is then sent to supercomputer clusters, where it’s transformed into images.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
“And, unlike Charlotte, I wasn’t using a supercomputer capable of performing over five hundred trillion floating-point operations per second.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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