David Fischak
Location Austria
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That's how we could start, but at the end we also have to add up the 8 partial sums to get the total sum!
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It took me some time to remember the term "serial" since I am more used to the term "sequential".
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You can also see some SPARC- or POWER-based CPUs, but Intel is leading the pack without a doubt.
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If the machines are categorized by their operating system, one can see that every single one of them uses some Linux distribution. :)
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Absolutely! Especially those by Cray and Thinking Machines are handsome computers.
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As much as I take delight in the fact that Europe has its fair share of supercomputers, but I am a bit disappointed that almost none of the European Flops were developed or produced in Europe. Japan, China and of course the USA all have "homegrown" computers, according to my knowledge.
(This comment should actually be on the next page, but I cannot delete...
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I might be wrong, but I think that QC is not anywhere close to being used productively in an HPC setting, since the machines that are called Quantum Computers today are all highly experimental.
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As far as I know, supercomputers were much more heterogeneous with respect to their architecture and their hardware in the 1990s and before, but for the last two decades most of them have used x86 processors, which is essentially the only kind of processor you will find on the desktop market. A new player in this area is Arm, whose processors already power...
