boast 1. v. boastÂ·ed, boastÂ·ing, boasts. v. intr. To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way. v. tr.
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. A supercomputer is typically used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both).
For instance, a 3.1-GHz processor has a clock that beats 3.1 billion times per second. Each clock beat represents an opportunity for the processor to manipulate a number of bits equivalent to its capacity -- 64-bit processors can work on 64 bits at a time, while 32-bit processors work on 32 bits at a time.