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> What is the difference between “a supercomputer” and “a bunch of racks of computers”? In addition to the other responses, I like pointing people to this talk
by benstrumental 5y ago
> What is the difference between “a supercomputer” and “a bunch of racks of computers”?
In addition to the other responses, I like pointing people to this talk[1] by Jeff Hammond for a comprehensive answer to this question (you can skip to the 11:15 timestamp).
[1] https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=ce0c53bf-d799-4cac-a132-ad1901484286 https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx...
- paxys 5y agoThat talk is from 2009 though. Nowadays companies regularly run jobs on commercial data centers which can include thousands of GPU cores, Infiniband networking and other specialized equipment. One can make a pretty valid case that we are approaching the ability to make an ad-hoc supercomputer for yourself from the GCP console.
- benstrumental 5y agoThis talk was from April 2021. 2009 is the year he got his PhD[2]. [2] https://jeffhammond.github.io/ https://jeffhammond.github.io/