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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A supercomputer is not like a PC where you can play games on it. It’s more like you have a giant room filled with servers that are all working together for a common goal.
Think of it this way. You run a manufacturing plant. You need widgets made. It would take each normal person 1 minutes to make each widget.
If you hired the fastest widget maker in the world, they would make each widget in only 30 seconds, so 2 widgets a minute.
However, you need more widgets made than that, and, you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket.
So you hire 5 people. Now, if all are there, you get 5 widgets per minute working.
Even the fastest single PC/Server made is not a super computer. It takes hundreds of computers all linked together working towards a common process to be a super computer.
For example, the top supercomputer right now is 9248 x 64 core servers, with 36,992 GPUs.
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