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What Is a Supercomputer?
A supercomputer is essentially like a bunch of servers cramped into the smallest space possible, but probably sharing some sort of control plane. The main thing is basically power density and cramming as much as you can in the same flow space,. And also, most of the time, use very specialised networking. In the case of Apple, which was the biggest supercomputers we had, it was 150,000 cores, 50,000 for Galois. So then the question is how different or how complicated are they to manage compared to like a regular fleet of servers? It's the same, but one of the magnitude high on sense of how much you have to care about them.