Thursday, September 18, 2008

*THIS*IS*NOT*A*SUPERCOMPUTER*


Let me state this is my opinion and only my opinion NERSC does not necessarily agree with me. Frankly, IDK what they think on the matter.

This is NOT a supercomputer.

Let me say that louder:

This is NOT a supercomputer.

64 cores is around 16 processors. Once this would have been a supercomputer, like when I first got involved back in the early 90s. Nowadays when the fastest machines have 38k+ cores, 64 is nada. STOP with the inane marketing, folks.

I really, really mean: JUST STOP! You're embarrassing yourselves.

HPC is a moving target and this, this "supercomputer" picture above is a server and nothing more.

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