The difference between a supercomputer and a data center is how "connected" the computations are; supercomputer optimizes the communication between nodes. To pu

The difference between a supercomputer and a data center is how "connected" the computations are; supercomputer optimizes the communication between nodes. To put it another way, a data center does a lot of work but, most of the time, for different applications (services) whose dependencies are "sparse".