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El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest

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93 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
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declan_roberts ◴[19 Nov 24 21:44 UTC] No.42188424[source]▶
Do super computers need proximity to other compute nodes in order to perform this kind of computations?

I wonder what would happen if Apple offered people something like iCloud+ in exchange for using their idle M4 compute at night time for a distributed super computer.

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1. philipkglass ◴[19 Nov 24 21:51 UTC] No.42188486[source]▶
Yes, supercomputers need low-latency communication between nodes. If a problem is "embarrassingly parallel" (like folding@home, mentioned by sibling comment) then you can use loosely coordinated nodes. Those sorts of problems usually don't run on supercomputers in the first place, since there are cheaper ways to solve them.