Comments by "Manuell" (@manuell3505) on "The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer" video.

Now it's just an artificial niche market based on quantity of regular computers. It has to do it with the price difference by purchasing large amounts. The consumer segment is even protecting it. Parallel solutions are actively kept out of the stores because it's a threat to monolithic disposable computers. This is why we can't interconnect CPU's on metal level, and periphereal data-transfer all has to go through the same controller sequentially. Imagine a grid of computers interconnected using a serial line. At the speed of PCIe 16x...
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