With distributed computing and cloud hosting allowing for thousands of instances, with huge amounts of resources such as obscene terabytes of RAM, is there still a need for supercomputers? They are, effectively, the same thing, right?
I am guessing that I'm not understanding something fully. I don't really see the benefit anymore, now that you can lease thousands of cores, petabytes of disk, and multiple terabytes of RAM.
What's the benefit? What am I missing? Google is none too helpful.
I am guessing that I'm not understanding something fully. I don't really see the benefit anymore, now that you can lease thousands of cores, petabytes of disk, and multiple terabytes of RAM.
What's the benefit? What am I missing? Google is none too helpful.