: So can we run video games on a supercomputer
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It depends on your definition of a video game. Most supercomputers don’t have dedicated GPUs that many modern video games require. Producing high frame rate graphics isn’t the job of a super computer.
Most probably have some interface so that workstations can get visual data from a supercomputer and you could play Tetris or similar. Supercomputers could potentially run game servers, but they are designed for more batch processing and not for Interactivity.
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You’d have shit performance. Like, worse than a midrange PC. Games use *at most* 8 or so processor cores. [You’d have this but with a football stadium sized audience](https://i.redd.it/9tu18n684z331.jpg) Supercomputers have relatively weak CPU cores but literally tens of thousands. Some have GPUs, but with drivers unsuited to games as they too are optimized for matrix math instead of rendering images.
Yes, but it would be like that meme with the guy cutting a cake with a sword… totally overblown and unnecessary.
A decent PC is definitely more than enough to run any current video game. Super computers are for processing vast amounts of data and running simulations that require more memory and processing power than would be reasonable to attempt to run through a household computer. Think incredibly detailed and accurate climate models or stock and financial transactions that need to happen fast and in great volume.
I mean with certain parameters you could, but why would you want to? It would be a giant waste of resources and most of them are Linux based systems, so would be hard pressed to find a game worth playing with native support on that OS. Can’t imagine any company or organization authorizing you to use it for that purpose anyway even if you wanted to.
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