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