supercomputers

These supercomputers are highly engineered for low network latency between nodes, which is necessary for many scientific workloads.

Can anyone provide back of the napkin calculations on this proposed supercomputers computing power vs Googles compute farm?

Modern supercomputers are essentially clusters, but with much more advanced network topologies and technologies, shared storage, etc.

The ecosystem so complex that scientists have a hard time using the world's fastest supercomputers to try to model it.

Nevertheless even for large systems, very few steps are required, and step times are reasonable, even compared to modern supercomputers.

In a technological society, central planning run by supercomputers executing global optimization algorithms doesn't sound like that bad of an idea.

It's already possible to write your own smartphone apps that basically do what supercomputers do.

Since it's no longer a Free Market, might as well go with a planned economy - now that supercomputers allow for actual real-time planning.

I dunno, Google's strategy of using a lot of off the shelf hardware as opposed to supercomputers seems to be paying off well.

I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but a common application for government-owned supercomputers is simulating the degredation of nuclear warheads.

They have supercomputers chugging on data 24-7.

Buck up; there are better supercomputers.

The "High Performance Conjugate Gradients" benchmark was proposed a couple years ago as an alternative metric for ranking supercomputers.

What is "Uber for supercomputers?" I can't think of any interpretation that makes any sense to me.

However, the types of computation performed by the top supercomputers are rarely the "embarassingly parallel" programs you can easily distribute via an @Home-style program, or something like Hadoop.

If you had supercomputers from 30 years ago you could still run the software that designs computers today -- whereas if you followed this "self-improvement" logic we should be using almost all of our computational power right now to achieve more computational power.

Supercomputers aren't built so that people can squander the resource (desktop PCs, closest clusters, and phones fulfill that role).

Supercomputers from not so long ago probably couldn't play 1080p video decently.

Supercomputers tend to be used for different types of computations.