Supercomputer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Supercomputer	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Supercomputer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
supercomputer n a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
supercomputer A broad term for one of the fastest computers currently available. Such computers are typically used for {number crunching} including scientific {simulations}, (animated) {graphics}, analysis of geological data (e.g. in petrochemical prospecting), structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, physics, chemistry, electronic design, nuclear energy research and meteorology. Perhaps the best known supercomputer manufacturer is {Cray Research}. A less serious definition, reported from about 1990 at The {University Of New South Wales} states that a supercomputer is any computer that can outperform {IBM}'s current fastest, thus making it impossible for IBM to ever produce a supercomputer. (1996-12-13)