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I wonder how SiDock (distributed computing) compares with supercomputing
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Send message Joined: 23 Sep 22 Posts: 6 Credit: 555,953 RAC: 0 |
Seems like they (Ohio’s University of Toledo) may be doing vaguely similar research, but with a very expensive computer cluster: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/23/petaflops_covid/ |
Send message Joined: 11 Oct 20 Posts: 334 Credit: 25,571,377 RAC: 6,716 |
With widespread participation distributed computing can do much more than all supercomputers from TOP500 list. :) |
Send message Joined: 10 Feb 21 Posts: 21 Credit: 4,831,331 RAC: 0 |
With widespread participation distributed computing can do much more than all supercomputers from TOP500 list. :) In principle, maybe. In practice, it comes nowhere close. (The TOP500 (4,864,000 TFlop/s) can do in 4 minutes what SiDock@home (36 TFlop/s) does in 1 year.) David Anderson analyses this missed opportunity at length in his BOINC in Retrospect. (TL;DR: Needs more promotion, understanding, trust, …) |
Send message Joined: 11 Oct 20 Posts: 334 Credit: 25,571,377 RAC: 6,716 |
Significant part of nominal TOP500 performance related to GPUs. Adding results of benchmarks for GPUs and for CPUs in one "bag" is not good thing, I think. And, of course, ... Needs more promotion, understanding, trust, … |
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