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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Supercomputers are just computers with lots of RAM, CPU/GPU capacity, storage, etc.
Windows 11 Home Edition can handle a max of 128GB of RAM and 64 CPU cores While that is a huge amount for most people, I wouldn’t call it a supercomputer.
Windows 11 Pro can handle 2 TB of RAM and 128 Cores. and Windows 11 Pro for Workstations can handle 6 TB of RAM, 256 cores, and 4 physically separate CPUs. That’s getting closer to supercomputer territory but Microsoft still calls it a workstation rather than a supercomputer.
So the best PC that can run windows is 4 CPUs with 64 cores each, and 6 TB of RAM. Thats still pretty far off from the average supercomputer.
Supercomputers are usually made of multiple racks full of computers. Hundreds of high performance computers working on the same problem. These could run windows, though it wouldn’t be the best tool for the job. But each instance of Windows would still not be a supercomputer, you’d have to consider the entire room full of computers to be one supercomputer.
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