On: Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida

[autokad]

I'm in favor of getting high powered compute in everyone's hands, so this is great to me.

[throwaway_pdp09 → autokad]

Why?

I mean, we already have (my old 2013 desktop would - I guess - compete with a cray 1 from the 1980s). What do you expect will happen if people get more CPU?

[asutekku → throwaway_pdp09]

The calculations we do nowaday are also completely different one did back in the 1980s. There’s still a lot you simply can not do on a home computer.

[eecc → throwaway_pdp09]

Better simulations? Successfully working on previously intractable problems?

[throwaway_pdp09 → eecc]

But most people ie. not 'everyone' as the post talked about, is doing that. Most just want web browsing + LibreOffice stuff. Oh, and games I suppose.