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alpha0  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to kill a supercomputer

fail-fast is great but depends on detecting failures in a timely manner. :) Some errors will affect the output (e.g. result is off) but the process itself hasn't failed.

Re. distributed computing. It's a bit fuzzy. Your mutli-core laptop is in practical fact a "distributed system" but comes in a nice monolithic envelope.





kleinbl00  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, my dad does networking. The supercomputing side of thing is someone else's problem.

Someone else's problem that he gleefully laughs and points at.