Agreed. Right now it's a single shared processor emulated with cryptography and massive replication - but that's not an architecture that will get you supercomp

Agreed. Right now it's a single shared processor emulated with cryptography and massive replication - but that's not an architecture that will get you supercomputer performance. The work on that thread - getting Ethereum to supercomputer status - is called CASPAR and you can read more about the efforts to get a formal proof for it here: http://blog.synereo.com/2015/07/23/Ethereum-+-Synereo/ http://blog.synereo.com/2015/07/23/Ethereum-+-Synereo/