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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:07PM (#2416966)
They say in the article the algorithm is "embarrassingly parallel", so then it's okay.

But you're right, if there are any interdependencies then the interconnect becomes important.

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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by codex on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:09PM (#2416977)
Ah, forgive me; I didn't see that.

I wonder how they'd count Folding@Home, then: 500K active clients, 6M total clients, but only a fraction of their clients are active at any given point in time.

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