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Tacputer, a non-sentient military computer, and HR Computer, a seemingly non-sentient Human Resources computer, in Void Bastards (2019). Five Pebbles, a semi-biological, city-sized supercomputer called an Iterator from Rain World. He, along with the numerous other Iterators seen or mentioned in the game, were built in order to brute-force a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. Type of extremely powerful computer For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). The IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected by a high ...
Mu (the name of the Greek letter μ) is a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting a factor of 10 −6 (one millionth). At the end of 1958, Ferranti agreed to collaborate with Manchester University on the project, and the computer was shortly afterwards renamed Atlas, with the joint venture under the control of Tom Kilburn.
The computer is an exaflop computer, but was not submitted to the TOP500 list; the first exaflop machine submitted to the TOP500 list was Frontier. Analysts suspected that the reason the NSCQ did not submit what would otherwise have been the world's first exascale supercomputer was to avoid inflaming political sentiments and fears within the ...
Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game is a handheld electronic game released by Mattel in 1981. [1] Designer Peter Oliphant claims that it was one of the more basic projects he worked on during his career.
Another of the earliest examples is in the 1920 play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, a race of self-replicating robot slaves revolt against their human masters; [25] [26] another early instance is in the 1934 film Master of the World, where the War-Robot kills its own inventor. [27] HAL 9000 is the lethal onboard computer of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Little People – various fairy/elf-like beings believed in across North America. Some are a couple inches tall and look like humans, some a couple feet and are hairy or look ugly, some take the form of human children. Different types can be mischievous, evil or beneficial. Mesingw – (Algonquian) Lenape name for the spirit of the forests.
In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy .