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Mostly heavily parallel calculations I guess, where communication matters. Diagonalizing dense matrices, solving partial differential equations. Mostly scientif
by azag0 10y ago
Mostly heavily parallel calculations I guess, where communication matters. Diagonalizing dense matrices, solving partial differential equations. Mostly scientific or engineering purposes.
- azernik 10y agoIt's actually the opposite - heavily parallelizable calculations can easily be split across physically separated machines. Supercomputers are necessary for computations that are hard to parallelize, ie those where there's a lot of data dependency between individual subproblems and data transfer between computing nodes is a bottleneck.
- azag0 10y agoThat's what I wrote. I didn't use the word "heavily" correctly.