A computer that is far more powerful than an ordinary one — the kind used to do enormous amounts of calculation, such as predicting the weather, modelling how a new medicine behaves, simulating the climate, or training large AI models. A supercomputer is not one fast machine on a desk.

A computer that is far more powerful than an ordinary one一種比一般電腦強大得多的電腦 — the kind used to do enormous amounts of calculation用來做龐大運算的那種, such as predicting the weather, modelling how a new medicine behaves, simulating the climate, or training large AI models像是預測天氣、模擬新藥的作用、模擬氣候變化，或訓練大型 AI 模型。 A supercomputer is notsupercomputer 不是 one fast machine on a desk放在桌上的一台快電腦。

In practice it is a room, or a whole building, full of thousands of processors wired together and working on one problem at the same time, with heavy cooling to stop it overheating. Countries and universities own them, and it is normal for news to report which country currently has the fastest one.

In practice it is a room, or a whole building實際上它是一整個房間，甚至一整棟建築, full of thousands of processors wired together裡面裝滿了成千上萬顆連結在一起的處理器 and working on one problem at the same time同時一起處理同一個問題, with heavy cooling to stop it overheating還配有強力的散熱系統，以免過熱。 Countries and universities own them國家和大學才擁有這種機器, and it is normal for news to report which country currently has the fastest one新聞報導哪個國家目前擁有最快的一台，也是很正常的事。

The word is relative and it moves: a supercomputer from thirty years ago is weaker than the phone in your pocket today, so the word always means 'far ahead of what is normal right now'. People also use it loosely and admiringly for anything astonishingly powerful, including the human brain — 'your brain is a supercomputer'.

The word is relative and it moves這個字的標準是相對的、會一直變動: a supercomputer from thirty years ago is weaker than the phone in your pocket today三十年前的 supercomputer 甚至比不上你現在口袋裡的手機, so the word always means 'far ahead of what is normal right now'所以這個字永遠是指「遠遠領先當下標準」的意思。 People also use it loosely and admiringly人們也會很寬鬆、帶點讚嘆地使用這個字 for anything astonishingly powerful來形容任何強大到驚人的東西, including the human brain包括人腦也可以這樣說 — 'your brain is a supercomputer'像是「你的大腦就是一台 supercomputer」。