[mdlug] Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter

[Garry Stahl]

On 10/10/2012 09:12 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 06:04 -0700, David Lane wrote:
>> I have looked into high performance computing the question is:
>> What application do you have that needs supercomputing?
> +1 This is 'cool', but 99.44% of users need a supercomputer as badly as
> they need a giant pink inflatable elephant.
>
> But that other 0.56% need one yesterday.
>
> A supercomputer is only useful for problems that can be decomposed in
> certain ways [or is worth figuring out how to decompose].  Otherwise an
> old-fashioned just-faster-computer is better.
>

As the gent pointed out "just faster" is hitting physical limits.


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