How does a supercomputer work and how are they so fast?

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Supercomputer makes a PC look like a little baby! I don’t know how it is so powerful compared to its counterparts.

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old supercomputers used specialized CPUs that were much faster than consumer chips at the time, but nowadays supercomputers are essentially just lots of regular computers with tons of CPUs and GPUs, yes they have server grade ECC memory, Nvidia compute cards and not your gaming GPUs, and high speed networking equipment to sync them, but in the end it’s not that far off from your gaming Rig, just multiplied several times

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