supercomputer

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Etymology

From super- +‎ computer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supercomputer (plural supercomputers)

1. (computing) Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its generation.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...

   • 2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in The New York Times‎:

     But at the microlevel it consists of an unimaginable number of atoms connected by springy chemical bonds, all jiggling around at a rate that even our fastest supercomputer might envy.

Derived terms

• supercomputerlike
• supercomputer-like

Related terms

• supercomputation
• supercomputing

Translations

computer that has great processing power

Catalan: supercomputador m Chinese: Mandarin: 超級計算機 / 超级计算机 (chāojí jìsuànjī), 超級電腦 / 超级电脑 (chāojí diànnǎo) Dutch: supercomputer (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: supertietokone French: superordinateur (fr) m, supercalculateur (fr) m German: Supercomputer (de) m, Superrechner m Ido: superkomputero Irish: sár-ríomhaire m Japanese: スーパーコンピューター (ja) (sūpākonpyūtā), スパコン (supakon) (abbreviation) Korean: 슈퍼컴퓨터 (ko) (syupeokeompyuteo), 슈퍼컴 (syupeokeom) (abbreviation) Polish: superkomputer m Portuguese: supercomputador (pt) m Romanian: supercalculator (ro) n, supercomputer n Russian: суперкомпью́тер (ru) m (superkompʹjútɛr), супер-ЭВМ (ru) f (super-EVM) Slovak: superpočítač Spanish: supercomputador (es) m, supercomputadora (es) f (Latin America), superordenador (es) m (Spain) Swedish: superdator (sv) c Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (th) (Khxmphiwtexr̒), ซูเปอร์คอมพิวเตอร์ (Sū pexr̒ khxmphiwtexr̒) Turkish: süperbilgisayar Vietnamese: siêu máy tính (vi) Welsh: uwchgyfrifiadur m

See also

• mainframe

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English supercomputer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsy.pər.kɔmˌpju.tər/

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• Hyphenation: su‧per‧com‧pu‧ter

Noun

supercomputer m (plural supercomputers, diminutive supercomputertje n)

1. (computing) a supercomputer, type of computer that has great processing power