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Re:A supercomputer at home by gaius on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @12:34PM (#246800)
Arguably supercomputers at home are common, and have been for years. How does your machine stack up against a Cray Y-MP?

(That Cray got 330 megaflops/core, Macs are peaking at around 1400 - each with 8).

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Re:A supercomputer at home by wmf on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @05:37PM (#247109)
The term "supercomputer" becomes meaningless unless its definition is periodically revised. IMO these days you need over 1 TFLOPS to quality.
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