You’re probably right.

Nuclear forensics, nonproliferation modeling, etc.

Will be more, it just doesn't make sense to upgrade everytime something better comes along

Aight

So cloud computing literally happens in the sky and we don't need hardware for it?

Thats awesome, thanks!

Interconnect

Supercomputer nodes are usually connected using 100-200 Gbit/s fabrics with latencies in the microsecond range. That's pretty expensive and requires a lot of power, too, but it allows you to treat a supercomputer much more like one Really Big Computer (and previous generations of supercomputers were indeed SSI - Single System Image - systems) instead of A Bunch Of Servers. Simulations like Really Big Computers instead of A Bunch Of Servers. On an ELI5 level something like a weather simulation will divide the world into many regions and each node of a supercomputer handles one region. Interactions between regions are handled through the interconnect, so it's really important for performance.

As said, Quantum & Classical are different breed of computers where there’s no parallel between and please refrain from twisting into your own version where nothing has been said regarding “Quantum being more powerful than Supercomputer” when I have just stated what supercomputer itself is to be comparing with quantum which is dumb.

Quantum computers are not a more powerful version of a supercomputer; they do different kinds of calculations, and solve problems differently, so they are used to solve different kinds of problems. They are not a replacement for supercomputers.

The real question is can it run crysis at max settings?

And BTW, they run Arch, right?

irl a nuclear Generator has around 1 GW (1000MW). But 30MW is still about 6 Land based Wind turbines running at full load. It's a lot!

Serious question, what is the need for supercomputers when you have access to cloud computing in all its glory?

Yea maybe, but can it run Crysis?

Wouldn’t they lease it though 🤔 Idk any company that outright buys a server

That’s over 20%!

Nono, that means 30000kWh is for 1h of operation. For one month of 24/7 at 30 days you‘d need 21.600.000 kWh or 21.600 mWh, or 2.741.040€ at 12,69ct/kWh. So $2.75M if Im correct

Lol, not even close. 30,000 kW * 720 hours * kW price.

My Factorio factory only consumes 9 MW and I had to build 3 nuclear reactors, just to keep the power up at night. That’s one big supercomputer

It's right at the top of the goddamn article

I get the rest. But national security?

woah that’s cool as fuck 🤯

Huge financial models.
Nuclear models.
Environment models.

Things that have millions of millions of data points that you need to calculate each turn

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: materials, nuclear science, neutron science, energy, high-performance computing, systems biology and national security.

Emails are more traceable for backdoor deals.