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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by jimktrains2 on Monday April 28, 2014 @11:32AM (#7660596)
> Supercomputers, yes ... general components... not particularly.

There isn't a terribly large difference anymore except for size and tuning.

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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by colechristensen on Monday April 28, 2014 @01:27PM (#7661465)
The processors and basic hardware have been mostly commodity since the mid 90s, the interconnects and related technology have mostly been specialized hardware though you could always do grid computing with Ethernet and the like.
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Re:The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve by jimktrains2 on Monday April 28, 2014 @02:38PM (#7661989)
True. Things like the Crays have their own, specialized interconnects and OS (on work nodes). A lot of things that aren't trying to be in the top can use fiber channel for similar results, though.
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