How do supercomputers work? Like I assume nasa and big govt have is it like a pc where you can play the best games best specs etc ?

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How do supercomputers work? Like I assume nasa and big govt have is it like a pc where you can play the best games best specs etc ?

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It’s less like a PC where you can play the best games, more like a really cool programming environment, which is connected to the supercomputer. You can use the programming environment from any laptop or PC which can connect to the supercomputer, sometimes even via web based interfaces (varies a lot). So the actual experience involves booking a time slot, and then using the previously mentioned programming environment to make damn sure your code is proper and queued and ready to run on the supercomputer once at the booked time slot.

You could potentially use a supercomputer to play games, but that would require a fair bit of software development effort, to enable the game to make the best possible use of the available compute power and memory.