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).
Their technology uses the hypervisor, which is software that allocates resources for the virtualization and sits between the operating system and the hardware. Further, many of the same people that worked on their mainframe virtualization technology continue to work in enhancing IBM's midrange offerings.