Supercruncher Applications

starheight writes "Bill McColl has written an article contrasting traditional massively parallel supercomputing with a whole new generation of compute-intensive apps that require massively scalable architectures and can deliver both incredible throughput and real-time responsivenes when processing millions or billions of tasks."

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What about how the design scales?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

The problem with many parallel disigns is that they are limited by Amdahl's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_Law such that a few CPUs make sense, but large numbers don't (except to the salesman's commission).

The term "massively parallel" indicates a system operating without those constraint.