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Tom Roberts wrote:

> On 11/20/18 10:46 AM, benj wrote:
>> Who needs time on a "supercomputer" you have on right in your laptop.
>> It's only a couple years behind current supercomputer levels . Just
>> wait a short time and there you are.
> 
> How silly and ignorant.
> 
> The supercomputer cori.nersc.gov has more than 700,000 cores and over a
> million gigabytes of RAM, with access to > 200 petabytes of disk. It
> requires > 10 megawatts of power. Each of those numbers is > 100,000
> times a typical laptop. No mount of "waiting" will get a laptop to
> approach any of those values.
>      Yes, I have run calculations on cori, and other supercomputers. 
> Tom Roberts

Total delusion. Surprised to watch that. Without proper coding granulation 
to the multicore your "super"computer is useless. It will still run over 
single core or a few. Moreover, excessive stupid implemented granulation 
makes the tasks running even slower than along a single core.

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