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Re: University of Antwerp makes 4000EUR NVIDIA supercomputer (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, June 02 2008 @ 15:18:29 CEST
From google define: supercomputer
a supercomputer:
Refers to those computing systems (hardware, systems software, and applications software) that provide close to the best currently achievable sustained performance on demanding computational problems.
Computer with enormous processing capacity and built with several multiprocessors.
a large, expensive and fast computer, usually arranged so that it can perform the same operation on all the items in a vector at once; useful for intensive number-crunching programs such as weather forecasting or high-quality graphics, but not usually effective for general parallel programs.
"Conventional" supercomputers serve a nice of problems just as well. Admittedly, this niche is broader than for GPU computing, but even GPU's are capable of dealing with an increasingly broad range of problems (check out gpgpu.org). The boundary is at least getting more and more vague.
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