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by aperrien 3545 days ago
> But 65,536 cores with 1KB of memory each doesn't sound very useful either.

You've just described the general architecture of the Connection Machine[0], a late 80's early 90's era supercomputer that was used for modeling weather, stocks, and other items. It was fairly useful in it's time.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine