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>I can't really see why you would need a supercomputer to do the analysis they did The article is fluff. 98% of all bioinformatics is done on "supercomputers"
by searine 6y ago
>I can't really see why you would need a supercomputer to do the analysis they did
The article is fluff.
98% of all bioinformatics is done on "supercomputers" or 'high performance computing environments" saying the researchers used supercomputers to analyze the expression data is like saying someone used a shovel to dig a hole.
- vardump 6y agoDon't we all have supercomputers in our pockets?
- dekhn 6y agoNo. Although our phones are extraordinary, they are not supercomputers. Supercomputers, more or less by legacy historical defintions, are collections of computing resources connected by a fast network with the goal of scaling to solve problems that could not be solved with conventional systems. Phones aren't really designed to solve that kind of problem. That said, many problems that previously would have required a supercomputer, can now be solved on phones.
- vardump 6y agoI think my sarcasm tag had some kind of issue and it wasn't visible.
- tzs 6y agoThe article doesn't simply say they used a supercomputer. It says they used Oak Ridge's Summit supercomputer, the second fastest in the world. Unless 98% of all bioinformatics done on a top 2 supercomputer, your point fails.
- searine 6y ago>It says they used Oak Ridge's Summit supercomputer, the second fastest in the world. The shovel had racing stripes. Got it. The job doesn't change based on what hardware it is run on.