mini-supercomputer
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(computer science)
A supercomputer that is about a quarter to a half as fast in vector processing as the most powerful supercomputers.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Only in 1984, after the XMP was already established, did mini-supercomputers with comparable performance/price emerge.
The Alliant and Convex mini-supercomputers, and Ardent and Stellar graphics supercomputers use Cray-style multiprocessor designs, for general purpose scientific and engineering computation.
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