A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is...
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Look up supercomputer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose...
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Packard Enterprise Frontier, or OLCF-5, is the world's first exascale supercomputer. It is hosted at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)...
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Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk. Construction on Colossus began in 2024 in...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan is an exascale supercomputer, hosted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United...
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Cray (redirect from Cray supercomputer)
Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures...
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TOP500 (redirect from Top 500 Supercomputers)
The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International...
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Fugaku (Japanese: 富岳) is a petascale supercomputer at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. It started development in 2014 as the...
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Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer delivered to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center of the United States Department...
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The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer (personal supercomputer) that is backed by Nvidia and built by various hardware vendors. It is...
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reliability of any supercomputer ever built, and "was supercomputing's high-water mark in longevity, price, and performance". NEC's SX-9 supercomputer was the world's...
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Summit or OLCF-4 was a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a facility at the Oak Ridge National...
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System X (pronounced "System Ten") was a supercomputer assembled by Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Computing facility in the summer of 2003. Costing...
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Selene is a supercomputer developed by Nvidia, capable of achieving 63.460 petaflops, ranking as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, when it...
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Quantum computing (redirect from Quantum supercomputer)
10,000 years could be performed in just 2.5 days on its own Summit supercomputer if its architecture were optimized, sparking a debate over the precise...
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Leonardo is a petascale supercomputer located at the CINECA datacenter in Bologna, Italy. The system consists of an Atos BullSequana XH2000 computer,...
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Aurora is an exascale supercomputer that was sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Intel and Cray for Argonne National...
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High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. HPC integrates systems administration...
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Arm Holdings (redirect from ARM supercomputers)
second fastest supercomputer (previously fastest) in 2022, the Japanese Fugaku is based on Arm AArch64 architecture. The supercomputer maker Cray has...
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A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a marketing ploy used by computer manufacturers for high-performance computer systems and was a popular term in the...
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PARAM (category Supercomputers)
PARAM is a series of Indian supercomputers designed and assembled by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune. PARAM means "supreme"...
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NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (redirect from Derecho (supercomputer))
of the energy it uses goes directly to its core purpose of powering supercomputers to enable scientific discovery. Part of its efficiency comes from the...
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(multiplications and/or additions) per second (exaFLOPS)"; it is a measure of supercomputer performance. Exascale computing is a significant achievement in computer...
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Deucalion is a supercomputer located at the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MAAC) in Guimarães, Portugal. It was inaugurated in September 2023 and is...
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The Cheyenne supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming operated for seven years as one of the world's most powerful...
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The Alps supercomputer is a high-performance computer funded by the Swiss Confederation through the ETH Domain, with its main location in Lugano. It is...
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Columbia was a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), installed in 2004 at the NASA...
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IBM Blue Gene (category IBM supercomputer platforms)
Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power...
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Yellowstone was the inaugural supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was installed, tested, and readied...
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Supercomputing in India (redirect from Indian supercomputers)
difficulty purchasing foreign supercomputers. As of November 2024[update], the AIRAWAT supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in India, having been ranked...
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