So, as due course would have it in our holiday household, it happened that one cold and snowflake filled night Dad walked in after work holding a gift wrapped package the size of a shoe box meant for very large shoes. As he handed it to my mom my dad smiled in a too broad grin. ...
“To match what a one exaFLOP computer system can do in just one second,” NetworkWorld wrote last year, “you’d have to perform one calculation every second for 31,688,765,000 years.” “It’s a beast!” By way of comparison, chipmaker AMD and computer builder Cray are currently ...
Sorry, but these top supercomputers are often multi-image clusters and even if they aren’t, they still run very similar workloads. If a single-image OS runs application, which is simple enough to be run on cluster, it doesn’t prove scalability for me. They also have to be specially mo...