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Supercruncher Applications

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the many-processors-make-light-work dept.

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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  1. Yay!!! by nixkuroi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just in time for Vista!

  2. Wow by Sneakernets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of-- oh. Wait.

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