depends who you talk to, I would say "a supercomputer is a machine designed for high performance computing that has capabilities several standard deviations above the mean".
There really are only about 10 supercomputers in the world at any time (the most that multiple nations can afford to run) and the capabilities keep being pushed up.
So no, I don't think it's just a bunch of servers with low latency network. Typically much more integration has to be done to achieve peak performance.
There really are only about 10 supercomputers in the world at any time (the most that multiple nations can afford to run) and the capabilities keep being pushed up.
So no, I don't think it's just a bunch of servers with low latency network. Typically much more integration has to be done to achieve peak performance.