back to article HPE: Exafloppers need to be 'memory-centric' as world cannot afford internode data slinging

HPE Advanced Technologies veep Mike Vildibill has told El Reg that power budget limitations will end the current supercomputer model of having multiple independent nodes passing chunks of data between them. HPE's exascale supercomputer thinking appears to be based on its Machine-like shared memory approach. All the major …

  1. G.Y.

    1^15=1

    It should be 10^15

    1. Dazed and Confused

      Re: 1^15=1

      but it's so much easier to scale from 1^15 to 1^18.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Reference to Clos networks?

    "Think of a dimension as being like a butterfly's wing."

    Usually, when someone says something along the lines of "think of so-and-so as being like a whatnot" it's to help explain something about the 'so-and-so' but 'dimension' as a 'butterfly wing' just made me think wtf?

    Was this supposed to be a reference to butterfly topologies/Clos networks?

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