If a custom massive motherboard for a single machine would be made with connections for hundreds of CPU, GPU and RAM sticks, could regular BIOS recognize all of them and Windows OS be installed on that machine?
If so, would Windows be able to use all of that computing power?
If not what additional things would need to be done to make use of such components on a single machine? Custom BIOS, custom OS?
I am aware that there are many applications which require much more computations that running a PC game but I am still interested if some games could then run at the tens of thousands of frames per second?
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Most supercomputers aren’t a single computer with tons of processors and other resources. They are clusters of individual computers (called nodes) linked together, often out of off-the-shelf hardware. They aren’t really useful for doing one thing, like playing a game, but instead they are really good at working on things that can be split up into small pieces that can be worked on at the same time and then put back together.
Each of the nodes in a cluster will run its own OS and use its own resources, so it is possible for the nodes to run Windows, but it is probably not going to be the best choice.
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