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What Is a Supercomputer?
What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just how powerful they are in relation to smaller, cheaper computers, but the level of innovation and engineering required to bring them into being in the ...
What’s a supercomputer? A regular computer in 30 years? Report comment. Reply. Joshua says: March 19, 2025 at 3:15 pm I often think of if as a “big iron”, a mainframe, a host computer.
Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecules, paving the way for ...
Google's demonstration of "quantum supremacy" is being challenged by researchers claiming to have pulled ahead of Google on a relatively normal supercomputer.
The most powerful supercomputer in the world now exceeds 1 exaFLOP — 1 quintillion (1018) FLOPS — while normal PCs and laptops usually have power of several hundred gigaFLOPS — 1 trillion ...
The president enthused on social media that chip maker Nvidia would build “A.I. SUPERCOMPUTERS” in the U.S. Here’s a guide to the technology and why it matters.
"When you think supercomputer you think, 'Oh, I'm never going to get to use one of those or see one,'" Godat said. "Well, it's really kind of the same components you have in your normal computer.
The new AI supercomputer by Nvidia can perform around 70 trillion operations per second and fits in the palm of your hand. The Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit.