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How to build a supercomputer?

I'm sorry if this question is already asked.

But, is it possible to hook up some computers over a router and combine their resources or something like that.

if so, how do you do it?

Update:

What Hardware will be capitable?

HOW TO DIVIDE TASKS AMOUNG COMPUTERS?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
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    well a supercomputer or cluster is basically 2 or more computers networked together and then running a messaging interface between them and then a controller that handles passing out the tasks.

  • 6 years ago

    A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of contemporary processing capacity – particularly speed of calculation which can happen at speeds of nanoseconds.

    Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially and, for decades, primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s machines with thousands of processors began to appear and, by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm. As of November 2014, China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 33.86 petaFLOPS (PFLOPS), or 33.86 quadrillion floating point operations per second.

  • LEGGO
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Like new mac pro 2013

    Inter X Server CPU

    AMD F700 6GB X2 GPU

    64GB RAM

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