When does a really fast computer become super?
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Kinda the short answer is that if you build a computer out of lots of computers, you’ve made a super computer. They call them a cluster, sure. Cluster is more a specific term.
Supercomputer is kinda an old term. Today you have cloud computing which you can rent like a hundred servers & make your own on-demand super computer. Though we’d call that a cluster.
Supercomputer sorta came about when the idea was ‘well, we cant make things efficient & small. Good thing is we dont need to today. Lets just put as much computing power together as we can just to solve this problem’.
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