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Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum

February 12, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Supercomputing, with a few exceptions, is a shared resource that is allocated to users in a particular field or geography to run their simulations and models on systems that are much larger than they might otherwise be able to buy on their own. …

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