> The shorthand here is that this is a novel, massively parallel architecture I'll bite.. I'm actually not at all experienced with supercomputers or HPC cluste

> The shorthand here is that this is a novel, massively parallel architecture I'll bite.. I'm actually not at all experienced with supercomputers or HPC clusters, only 1990s proprietary MPP systems, what has been termed "grid computing" [1], and currently-popular systems like Hadoop. In what way is this novel? [1] e.g. distributed compilation, semiconductor simulation/test, or similarly embarassingly parallel workloads requiring little formal coordination beyond traditional batch scheduling resource allocation