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- DictionarySu·per·com·put·er/ˈso͞opərkəmˌpyo͞odər/
noun
- 1. a particularly powerful mainframe computer.
noun
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 commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Since 2017, supercomputers have existed which can perform over 1017 FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or 100 PFLOPS... Wikipedia