Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by aeroevan on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:11PM
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> its calculations were "embarrassingly parallel," with no communication between nodes
That's probably the only type of process that would work in the cloud. Most HPC applications require lots of communication between nodes, so I don't think I would call this a proper supercomputer.
That's probably the only type of process that would work in the cloud. Most HPC applications require lots of communication between nodes, so I don't think I would call this a proper supercomputer.