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Re:Stampede – Texas Advanced Computing Center by noir_lord on Saturday October 04, 2014 @06:42PM (#8410887)
I love reading about supercomputing, it's a completely alien world that has just enough similarity with what I do to be somewhat understandable.

I'm old enough (34) to have seen much of the revolution in computing and it is easy to get somewhat jaded after a while but the sheer power of the petascale systems just makes my jaw drop every time I read about them.

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Re:Stampede – Texas Advanced Computing Center by skynetv2 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @09:02PM (#8413947)
building a petascale system is relatively easy compared to having applications that can actually use all that power. you can count such applications probably on one hand that can scale to post-petascale systems
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