William L. Hosch
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
William L. Hosch was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Supercomputer, any of a class of extremely powerful computers. The term is commonly applied to the fastest high-performance systems available at any given time. Such computers have been used primarily for scientific and engineering work requiring exceedingly high-speed computations. Common…
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