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Computer clusters with graphics processing units
A GPU cluster is a computer cluster in which each node is equipped with a graphics processing unit (GPU). By harnessing the computational power of modern
GPU_cluster
Supercomputer designed by Tesla
uses similar components. However, the performance of the primary Tesla GPU cluster has been disputed, as it was not clear if this was measured using single-precision
Tesla_Dojo
Dutch technology company
owns a data center in Mäntsälä, Finland, a GPU cluster at an Equinix data center in Paris, a GPU cluster at a data center in Kansas City, Missouri, under
Nebius_Group
units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Nvidia motherboards come with integrated onboard GPUs.
List of Nvidia graphics processing units
List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
Specialized electronic circuit that accelerates graphics
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being
Graphics_processing_unit
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia
Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture
Hopper_(microarchitecture)
American semiconductor company
fabric. This reduces latency and interconnect bottlenecks compared to GPU clusters. They use static random-access memory, as opposed to dynamic random-access
Cerebras_Systems
Set of computers configured in a distributed computing system
large multi-user cluster needs to access very large amounts of data, task scheduling becomes a challenge. In a heterogeneous CPU-GPU cluster with a complex
Computer_cluster
Recovering passwords stored by computer systems
needed]. Using ocl-Hashcat Plus on a Virtual OpenCL cluster platform, the Linux-based GPU cluster was used to "crack 90 percent of the 6.5 million password
Password_cracking
American multinational technology company
produced the DGX-1 based on an 8 GPU cluster, to improve the ability of users to use deep learning by combining GPUs with integrated deep learning software
Nvidia
Nvidia's line of general purpose GPUs
intelligence market. Nvidia Tesla P100 die Servers utilizing an Nvidia Tesla GPU cluster v t e Notes To calculate the processing power see Tesla (microarchitecture)#Performance
Nvidia_Tesla
Using graphics processing units for molecular simulations
of a cluster of workstations based on common processors. Abalone – Molecular Dynamics (Benchmark) ACEMD on GPUs since 2009 Benchmark AMBER on GPUs version
Molecular_modeling_on_GPUs
Use of a GPU for computations typically assigned to CPUs
units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
Type of middleware software framework for remote GPU virtualization
application. Each GPU can be part of a cluster or running inside of a virtual machine. The approach is aimed at improving performance in GPU clusters that are
RCUDA
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures
Ampere_(microarchitecture)
Line of Nvidia produced servers and workstations
The Nvidia DGX (Deep GPU Xceleration) is a series of servers and workstations designed by Nvidia, primarily geared towards enhancing deep learning applications
Nvidia_DGX
Data processing hardware by Nvidia
same PCB as the Bluefield DPU. These cards are intended for high power GPU clusters to allow high bandwidth communication without needing to cross the PCIe
Nvidia_BlueField
Suite of Microsoft security protocols
Nonce vulnerability Security Advisory". Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours". Ars Technica. Retrieved
NTLM
Smooth approximation of one-hot arg max
bottlenecked by memory bandwidth. It can be efficiently computed on a GPU cluster using the FlashAttention algorithm. Geometrically the softmax function
Softmax_function
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
execution units, 768 ALUs, 6 clusters). The iPhone 17e uses the A19 with a 4-core GPU, unlike the iPhone 17 which has a 5-core GPU. The iPhone Air uses the
Apple_A19
Supercomputer platform
powerful supercomputer, nicknamed the "Condor Cluster", by connecting together 1,760 processors with 168 GPUs and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array
PlayStation_3_cluster
Vector quantization algorithm minimizing the sum of squared deviations
developed to distribute the workload across multi-core processors, GPUs, and distributed clusters. Shared Memory Model (OpenMP): This approach divides the work
K-means_clustering
American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
leading AI alignment researcher pens Time piece calling for ban on large GPU clusters". Data Center Dynamics. Archived from the original on April 17, 2023
Eliezer_Yudkowsky
Windows database that stores users' passwords
learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2023-01-17. Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours". Ars Technica. Retrieved
Security_Account_Manager
American information technology company
deployments. Arista Ethernet switches are widely deployed across: AI and GPU cluster networking Hyperscale cloud data centers Enterprise data centers Service
Arista_Networks
Data purchased 2,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in July 2024, claiming it was the first European cloud provider to provide an H200 GPU cluster. By that point, Northern
Northern_Data
Italian artificial intelligence project
quantization, knowledge distillation and 4D parallelization, with claimed GPU-cluster efficiency above 90%. The model is integrated into Almawave's AIWave
Velvet_AI
Software company
Ethernet-based GPU-to-GPU networking fabric product line is planned for hyperscalers and enterprises as a scalable replacement for InfiniBand in GPU cluster interconnections
DriveNets
American AI technology company
allows for the creation of local hardware clusters that perform tasks similar to traditional GPU clusters. The platform emphasizes privacy and security
WebAI
High performance computer cluster
The DEGIMA (DEstination for Gpu Intensive MAchine) is a high performance computer cluster used for hierarchical N-body simulations at the Nagasaki Advanced
DEGIMA
Deep learning training framework
multi-GPU clusters. Communication is built on top of collective-communication libraries such as MPI, NCCL, Gloo and Intel oneCCL, and supports both GPU and
Horovod_(machine_learning)
Modeling application
Transport in Multi-layered Turbid Media Based on GPU Clusters): http://bmp.hust.edu.cn/GPU_Cluster/GPU_Cluster_MCML.HTM Radiative transfer equation and diffusion
Monte Carlo method for photon transport
Monte_Carlo_method_for_photon_transport
Artificial intelligence research collective
SpellML (a cloud infrastructure company) in the form of access to powerful GPU clusters that are necessary for large scale machine learning research. On Feb
EleutherAI
Chinese artificial intelligence chip manufacturer
C500 GPU for the ChatGLM2-6B bilingual AI model by Zhipu AI, ensuring efficient, stable performance. In June 2024, MetaX's C-Series GPU clusters supported
MetaX
Hash function that is suitable for use in cryptography
24, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020. Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours". Ars Technica. Archived
Cryptographic_hash_function
Family of computer vision models
been adapted for fast inference on edge TPUs and centralized TPU or GPU clusters by NAS. EfficientNet V2 was published in June 2021. The architecture
EfficientNet
American cloud infrastructure company
November 2024). "GPU-accelerated workloads: Vultr and AMD revamp AI performance". siliconangle.com. "Vultr to invest $1 billion in Ohio AI cluster using AMD
Vultr
Open-source machine learning algorithms
December 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2011. "Extending Mahout Samsara to GPU Clusters". Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 29 October
Apache_Mahout
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
6-core CPU and 4-core GPU iPhone 13 Pro & 13 Pro Max – 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU iPhone SE (3rd generation) – 6-core CPU and 4-core GPU iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
Apple_A15
Attack model against cryptographic hash functions
2017-02-23. "MD5 and Perspectives". 2009-01-01. Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours". Ars Technica. Retrieved
Preimage_attack
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia
Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures
Blackwell_(microarchitecture)
Intel microprocessor series released in 2026
that doesn't support DDR5. There are also smaller GPU tiles which have up to 4 Xe cores, and larger GPU tiles which have up to 12 Xe tiles. The latter being
Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)
Public university in Stony Brook, New York, US
opening of its new SMART Cluster in CEWIT, a dual-use GPU cluster for both machine learning and visualization. The SMART Cluster is also the first hardware-accelerated
Stony_Brook_University
Software-defined storage company
platform for GPU-accelerated workflows. At ISC 2025, Goethe University Frankfurt discussed using VDURA’s platform alongside a large AMD GPU cluster for AI and
VDURA
Brand of graphics hardware and software
PowerVR G6230 GPU. The Apple A7 SoC integrates a graphics processing unit (GPU) which AnandTech believes to be a PowerVR G6430 in a four cluster configuration
PowerVR
German biochemist (born 1974)
Vanderbilt University News. "Research". Meiler Lab. "MRI-R2: Acquisition of a GPU cluster for solving n-body systems in science and engineering". National Science
Jens_Meiler
Cloud gaming service
to deploy up to 50,000 servers, beginning with an initial rollout of GPU clusters in the United States. As of 2024, Boosteroid had reached $87 million
Boosteroid
Parallel computing platform: GPGPU libraries and application programming interface
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) software stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. ROCm spans several domains, including general-purpose computing
ROCm
Chinese artificial intelligence company
includes "54,000,000 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) cores across 15,000 GPUs within 12 GPU clusters." In April 2019, The New York Times reported that
SenseTime
American technology company
company specializing in multi-core processors, particularly in Nvidia's GPU and CUDA environment, IBM Power7, and Cell. They also specialize in solid-state
Fixstars_Solutions
Series of systems-on-a-chip designed by Apple
series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU), used for its Mac desktops and notebooks and iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets
Apple_M1
Intel microprocessor series released in 2023
entered high-volume production at Fab 34 in the Republic of Ireland. The GPU, System on a chip (SoC) and I/O extender tiles in Meteor Lake are manufactured
Meteor_Lake
Quantum Computing company in Boston, Massachusetts
H100 GPUs; QuEra is a founding collaborator at Nvidia's Accelerated Quantum Center in Boston, coupling its hardware with GB200 NVL72 GPU clusters for large-scale
QuEra
Chinese artificial intelligence company
Nvidia GPUs for an AI project, reportedly obtaining 10,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs before the United States restricted chip sales to China. Computing cluster Fire-Flyer
DeepSeek
CUDAlign 3.0: Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison in Large GPU Clusters. Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014 14th IEEE/ACM International
List of sequence alignment software
List_of_sequence_alignment_software
Parallel computing platform and programming model
that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, significantly broadening their
CUDA
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
compared to 3.5 on GK110/GK208 GPUs and 3.0 on GK10x GPUs. Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ, two features in GK110/GK208 GPUs, are also supported across the
GeForce_900_series
System on a chip by Nvidia
ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory controller onto one package. Early
Tegra
Publicly known attacks against cryptographic hash functions
November 23, 2020. "Mind-blowing GPU performance". Improsec. January 3, 2020. Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password
Hash function security summary
Hash_function_security_summary
Computer network at the ETH Zurich university in Switzerland
RAM (160 cores) GPU nodes 18 nodes with two 12-core AMD Opteron 6174 CPUs, 32 GB of RAM and 2 Nvidia Fermi C2050 GPUs (432 cores + 36 GPUs) 2 nodes with
Brutus_cluster
System-on-chip processors designed by Apple Inc.
dual-core CPU, and an integrated custom PowerVR GX6450 GPU in a four cluster configuration. The GPU features custom shader cores and compiler. The A8 is
Apple_silicon
Streaming of video games as video to clients via cloud computing
but can waste resources. With better GPU resource scheduling algorithms, if the game does not fully utilize that GPU it can be used to help run someone
Cloud_gaming
Type of memory used on processors that require high transfer rate memory
Hynix in 2013, and the first devices shipped with HBM were the AMD Fiji GPUs in 2015. HBM was adopted by JEDEC as an industry standard in October 2013
High_Bandwidth_Memory
Database project devoted to the ranking of computers
numeric precision. Tesla Dojo's primary unnamed cluster using 5,760 Nvidia A100 graphics processing units (GPUs) was touted by Andrej Karpathy in 2021 at the
TOP500
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Maxwell is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Kepler microarchitecture. The Maxwell architecture was
Maxwell_(microarchitecture)
Series of microarchitectures and instruction set architecture by AMD
microarchitectures and an instruction set architecture that were developed by AMD for its GPUs as the successor to its TeraScale microarchitecture. The first product featuring
Graphics_Core_Next
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Pascal is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, as the successor to the Maxwell architecture. The architecture was first introduced
Pascal_(microarchitecture)
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Volta is the codename, but not the trademark, for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, succeeding Pascal. It was first announced on a roadmap
Volta_(microarchitecture)
the amounts of collected data and computing power grow (multicore, GPUs, clusters, clouds), modern datasets no longer fit into one computing node. Efficient
GraphLab
Open-source distributed vector database
search-related features are available in Milvus: In-memory, on-disk and GPU indices, Single query, batch query and range query search, Support of sparse
Milvus_(vector_database)
primary system as of 2025 is Mary Coombs, a Lenovo ThinkSystem Neptune GPU cluster which uses direct warm-water cooling. Other systems hosted at the centre
Hartree_Centre
Clustering methods
parallel, e.g., on multiple GPUs with distributed memory, resulting not only in high quality clusters, which spectral clustering is famous for, but also top
Spectral_clustering
American technology company
Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure to AI developers and enterprises, and also develops its own
CoreWeave
Measure of computer performance
XE) in double precision calculations. GPUs are considerably more powerful. For example, Nvidia Tesla C2050 GPU computing processors perform around 515
Floating point operations per second
Floating_point_operations_per_second
Transfer of computational tasks to a separate processor or an external platform
processor, such as a hardware accelerator, or an external platform, such as a cluster, grid, or a cloud. Offloading to a coprocessor can be used to accelerate
Computation_offloading
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
support OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11. No products with a fully enabled GF100 GPU were ever sold. The GTX 480 had one streaming multiprocessor disabled. The
GeForce_400_series
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1954)
screening, and for pioneering the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and GPU-clusters. In 2012, he presided over the development and opening of the Reality
Arie_E._Kaufman
tables compare general and technical information for notable computer cluster software. This software can be grossly separated in four categories: Job
Comparison of cluster software
Comparison_of_cluster_software
Software development company
software for deploying and managing high-performance (HPC) clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in on-premises data centers as
Bright_Computing
American computer technology company
PowerVR shading clusters and still gain benefit from the ray reordering being performed by the Caustic traversal unit. Additionally, the GPU was still a tile-based
Caustic_Graphics
American multinational semiconductor company
It develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), system-on-chips (SoCs), and high-performance
AMD
Apple rack-mounted server
run high-performance computing applications in clusters – a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node, without a video card and optical drives
Xserve
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Turing is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is named after the prominent mathematician and computer
Turing_(microarchitecture)
PakSupercomputer, a heterogeneous cluster combining central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and field-programmable gate arrays
Supercomputing_in_Pakistan
Bangladeshi-American computer scientist
software-only GPU sharing system for deep learning, FedScale, the largest federated learning benchmark and platform, and Zeus, the first GPU time & energy
Mosharaf_Chowdhury
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
generation of Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics processing units. The third major GPU architecture developed by Nvidia, Tesla represents the company's first unified
GeForce_8_series
Computing with supercomputers and clusters
Computing Systems High-availability cluster High-throughput computing Many-task computing Supercomputing Urgent computing GPU workstation Brazell, Jim; Bettersworth
High-performance_computing
(called VSH*) could be obtained in this way. Goodin, Dan (2012-12-10). "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours". Ars Technica. Retrieved
Security of cryptographic hash functions
Security_of_cryptographic_hash_functions
Series of video cards
interconnect for inter-GPU communications through the implementation of a CrossFire X SidePort on each GPU, giving extra 5 GB/s full-duplex inter-GPU bandwidth. These
Radeon_HD_4000_series
Computer energy efficiency
performance per watt. High-performance GPUs may draw large amount of power, so intelligent techniques are required to manage GPU power consumption. Measures like
Performance_per_watt
Software library for similarity search
Python and C. Some of the most useful algorithms are implemented on the GPU using CUDA. FAISS is organized as a toolbox that contains a variety of indexing
FAISS
PICO is an Intel Cluster installed in the data center of Cineca. PICO is intended to enable new "BigData" classes of applications, related to the management
Pico_(supercomputer)
Family of GPUs by Nvidia
applications that are GPU-accelerated.[timeframe?] The Nvidia GRID K1 and K2 are being integrated with Supermicro server clusters for use with 3D-intensive
Nvidia_GRID
Parallel programming model
a backend for the StarPU runtime system. SkePU is being extended for GPU clusters. SKiPPER is a domain specific skeleton library for vision applications
Algorithmic_skeleton
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Lovelace, also referred to simply as Lovelace, is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Ampere architecture
Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)
Ada_Lovelace_(microarchitecture)
Distributed data processing framework
permits usage of GPU hardware within the cluster, which is a very substantial benefit to execute deep learning algorithms on a Hadoop cluster. The HDFS is
Apache_Hadoop
Codename for a family of graphics processing unit microarchitectures
Since the Xbox 360's GPU is based on the ATI's architecture, Microsoft saw the hardware-accelerated surface tessellation as a major GPU feature. A couple
TeraScale_(microarchitecture)
Microarchitecture by AMD
is designed using High Density (aka "Thin") Libraries normally used for GPUs to reduce electric energy consumption and die size, delivering a 30 percent
Excavator_(microarchitecture)
Partitioning a stream of human speech by identity of speaker
number of clusters equal to the number of speakers. More recently, speaker diarisation is performed via neural networks using large-scale GPU computing
Speaker_diarisation
emerged: fuzzy computing on GPU. (in English) Rapid prototyping of high performance fuzzy computing applications using high level GPU programming for maritime
High-performance fuzzy computing
High-performance_fuzzy_computing
GPU CLUSTER
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Boy/Male
Tamil
Vallur | வாலà¯à®²à¯à®°
A cluster of blossoms
Vallur | வாலà¯à®²à¯à®°
Boy/Male
Australian, Basque, Farsi, French
Ox; Bull; Cow
Boy/Male
Australian, Japanese
Tough; Strong
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Virtuous; Divine; To be Pure; Flawless; Happiest
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Lord Krishna; Gopal
Girl/Female
Muslim
Pleiades. Cluster of stars.
Girl/Female
British, English, Finnish
Bunch; Cluster
Girl/Female
Tamil
Smart
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, possibly in Somerset or Wiltshire, where the surname is clustered, but perhaps a variant of Lopham, a habitational name from a place in Norfolk, so named from an Old English personal name Loppa + hÄm ‘homestead’.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil
Smart
Girl/Female
Muslim
Pleiades. Cluster of stars.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Hidden in a cluster of fig trees.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places so called in North Yorkshire, Hampshire, and Kent. The Yorkshire place is named from the Old English personal name Hūna + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; that in Hampshire from the genitive plural of hund ‘hound’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; and the Kentish place from Old English huntena, genitive plural of hunta ‘hunter’ + dūn ‘hill’. The present-day distribution shows clusters in North and South Yorkshire, and also in Norfolk.
Female
Egyptian
, Egyptian unisex name.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Cluster of figs.
Girl/Female
Indian, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil
Star
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly South Wales and southwestern England)
English (mainly South Wales and southwestern England) : from the medieval personal name Harry, which was the usual vernacular form of Henry, with assimilation of the consonantal cluster and regular Middle English change of -er- to -ar-.French : from the Germanic personal name Hariric, composed of the elements hari, heri ‘army’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from the Old French word goi (Latin gubia) denoting a type of bill hook or knife used by vine-growers or coopers, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of such implements.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in France named Gouy, for example in Aisne or Pas-de-Calais.Galician : probably a habitational name from Goy in Lugo province, Galicia.German : northwestern variant of Gau.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name meaning ‘servant of Gay’.French : from a Germanic personal name Gaidman or Gaidmar, of which the first element is gaida ‘point (of a lance)’.German (Gaymann) : variant of Gau 1, reinforced by the addition of man ‘man’.Americanized spelling of German Gehmann (see Gehman).
Girl/Female
Indian
Sweet
GPU CLUSTER
GPU CLUSTER
Girl/Female
Australian, Spanish
High Tower; Woman from Magdala
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Earl, ERLE means "nobleman, prince, warrior."
Male
English
Anglicized form of Greek Bariesou, BAR-JESUS means "son of Jesus." In the New Testament bible, this is the name of a false prophet.
Boy/Male
Muslim
An old Arabian tribes name
Girl/Female
Irish
A green field; the warm sandy color of a lion's coat.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Danish, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Muslim, Pashtun, Sindhi, Telugu
Patriot; Witness; Proof of God
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Gift of the Lord
Girl/Female
Muslim
Just. Honest. Equal.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Well Performed
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beloved
GPU CLUSTER
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a.
Growing in tufts or clusters.
adv.
In clusters.
v. t.
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
n.
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
a.
A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cluster
n.
A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.
n.
A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.
n.
Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
n.
The gnu.
imp. & p. p.
of Cluster
n.
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
v. t.
To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
n.
One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
n.
A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.
n.
The gnu.
v. i.
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
n.
The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.