The difference between a supercomputer versus a data center is that data centers serve millions of customers at once, crunching data, and organizing/computing data + results.
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Really cool link for folks who are interested in what happens in a Google data center and what it actually looks like and how all the pieces come together. I would recommend watching the video for a clear, but concise breakdown and visualization!
efficiens
Out of curiosity, don't websites such as Google that service billions of requests each day have supercomputers to process them?
althalus
TO add on to @efficiens, does this mean that even if there is a huge amount of data, as long as there are enough servers, we do not need supercomputers to process the data?
PandaX
@althalus, @efficient Super computer is designed for compute-intensive applications, while data center is designed for data-intensive applications. For most applications, the computing capacity of super computer is not necessary.
cmusam
The two main large-scale systems are supercomputers and datacenters, each with a different focus. It would be ideal to have a computing system with both high data intensity and computational intensity. However, there are challenges at hardware, runtime and application levels.
The difference between a supercomputer versus a data center is that data centers serve millions of customers at once, crunching data, and organizing/computing data + results.
Really cool link for folks who are interested in what happens in a Google data center and what it actually looks like and how all the pieces come together. I would recommend watching the video for a clear, but concise breakdown and visualization!
Out of curiosity, don't websites such as Google that service billions of requests each day have supercomputers to process them?
TO add on to @efficiens, does this mean that even if there is a huge amount of data, as long as there are enough servers, we do not need supercomputers to process the data?
@althalus, @efficient Super computer is designed for compute-intensive applications, while data center is designed for data-intensive applications. For most applications, the computing capacity of super computer is not necessary.
The two main large-scale systems are supercomputers and datacenters, each with a different focus. It would be ideal to have a computing system with both high data intensity and computational intensity. However, there are challenges at hardware, runtime and application levels.