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mini-supercomputer

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mini-supercomputer

A computer that is 25% to 100% as fast as a supercomputer, but costs less. See supercomputer.


mini-supercomputer [‚min·ē′sü·pər·kəm‚püd·ər]
(computer science)
A supercomputer that is about a quarter to a half as fast in vector processing as the most powerful supercomputers.


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and was chief architect of the Cydra 5 mini-supercomputer, one of the first commercial VLIW products.
In the early 80's, McAndrew founded Alliant Computer, considered the first company to offer a high performance, mini-supercomputer - the implementation of which pushed the state of the art in the utilization of ASICs.
In the early 80's, McAndrew founded Alliant Computer, considered the first company to offer a high performance, mini-supercomputer - the implementation of which pushed the state of the art in the utilization of ASICs.
 
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