Yes, I know Brian's work well. His computers are awesome! Counting TFLOPS is important for some, but for others it's the number of CPU cores that count. Better

Yes, I know Brian's work well. His computers are awesome! Counting TFLOPS is important for some, but for others it's the number of CPU cores that count. Better to compare real workloads. In the case of supercomputer.io the key will be software packages for machine learning and smartly distributing data across the network. There is a long history for this kind of work with folding@home and BOINC.