Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks agoNo first time ever. This isn’t a supercomputer, it’s a distributed cloud network that they’re referring to as a supercomputer because it has a lot of power. It’s not a supercomputer in any other sense of the word, as it’s set up on cloud providers around the globe rather than in one location in the same room.
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Legit question: how is that different conceptually to the random individuals all running Prime95? Could that not also be referred to as a cloud supercomputer?