Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Nov 2006 17:13 UTC, submitted by Uzak Ajays
The University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell to unveil one of the world's fastest supercomputers. The machine, called Darwin, consists of 2340 computers arranged in a cluster. It has been ranked as Europe's seventh fastest supercomputer, and the 20th fastest in the world, according to the top 500 list.
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2006-04-21
The original article made it sound like standard PCs were used with normal networking equipment, in which case it wouldn't really be a supercomputer in my eyes.
So what you are saying, is that not all computers on top500 are supercomputers?
What matters is the types of applications a supercomputer needs to be super at. I guess a lot of money have been wasted on fancy networks
just to be on top500, while the real applications are embarrassingly parallel.