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kind of tired of calling every small cluster a supercomputer. as someone who has been building actual supercomputers (think top 5-10) for over 25 years, it is v
by supercomputery 8y ago
kind of tired of calling every small cluster a supercomputer. as someone who has been building actual supercomputers (think top 5-10) for over 25 years, it is very frustrating to hear such misinformation.
encourage parallel computing and scale out - dont call every small project a supercomputer.
- eismcc 8y agoGenerally agree. The spirit of the term “supercomputer” in my case is tied to a) massive respect for Seymour Cray b) achieving something in the realm of late 90s scale according to top500 and d) parallella’s marketing.