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"Supercomputers" are almost always modular, meaning processors can be added ad-infinitum.The only universality to a supercomputer is that it has far more computational power than a retail computer system. The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the IBM Roadrunner, currently has 130,464 processor cores.

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