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What about stuff like decoding human genome? A master just has to give out specific sections to each slave and slaves don't need to communicate with each other.
by Achshar 13y ago
What about stuff like decoding human genome? A master just has to give out specific sections to each slave and slaves don't need to communicate with each other. Any number of those "scientific games" type of problems can be solved with the bitcoin mining network machines.
- alephnil 13y agoMost institutions that have a real supercomputer also has clusters that are used for tasks that does not need fast interconnect. The reason is that there is quite some tasks that does not need fast interconnection, and for those a cluster is OK, and a cluster costs a fraction of a supercomputer. Tasks in bioinformatics "decoding human genome" is typically of this type, and are generally performed on clusters, even if a supercomputer is available. Where I used to study, applications for CPU time at the supercomputer for workloads that could run on a cluster was generally rejected, and directed to the clusters instead.