>I am genuinely curious to see what types of "compute-intensive" applications fit the bill here.
Well, for example, physical simulations using finite element or boundary value approaches. Pretty much anything you'd use with MPI or do on a supercomputer is going to run better on a machine with a nice network stack like this.
Even large scale storage (think backtesting on petabytes of options data) that uses a map-reduce paradigm and is properly sharded for the data access paths and aggregates would benefit from something like this.
Well, for example, physical simulations using finite element or boundary value approaches. Pretty much anything you'd use with MPI or do on a supercomputer is going to run better on a machine with a nice network stack like this.
Even large scale storage (think backtesting on petabytes of options data) that uses a map-reduce paradigm and is properly sharded for the data access paths and aggregates would benefit from something like this.