iPad 2 pwns Cray-2? Wife’s desktop beats all?
HPC blog A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog here (Exascale by 2018: Crazyor possible?) that looked at how long it took the industry to hit noteworthy HPC milestones. Chatter in the comments section (aside from the guy who assailed me for a typo, and for not explicitly calling out ‘per second’ denotations) discussed what these massive systems do and why they’re necessary.…