Exploring the ‘Super’ of Supercomputers

Superlatives aside… What essence of ‘super’ does it take to make a “supercomputer”?

This is a fun non-expert friendly voyage through the ages and technology to compare and contrast various worlds of computation and information manipulation.

• From the highly parallel data processing capabilities of the humble snail racing against the technical marvel of the Raspberry Pi,
• visiting the Colossus giants of the recent past to the quantum miniaturization of the indeterminate present.
• All through to some of the perhaps not so wild dreams of Asimov, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and others…
• With brief comment on the latest Marketing hype of “Big Data” and the supposed “AI is everything”.

Beer may help but is not essential 😉

And Linux ‘just happens’ to run all of the world’s top (general purpose) supercomputers… 😛

All at our usual favored friendly venue 🙂

All welcome! Just look for the Linux and Penguins 🙂

Cheers,
Martin