supercomputer

See also: Supercomputer

English

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^[1]:

     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), (abbreviation) スパコン (supakon)
• 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