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by ceejayoz 1608 days ago
You could fit any of the TOP500 machines into one of Facebook's datacenters, couldn't you? With room left over to spare?

It's not like Facebook had to go hollow out the Moon to make this.

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The largest machine in the top500 draws 30MW, which is getting to be close to the size of a Facebook or Google datacenter. All the rest are much smaller. Mostly people misunderstand the relationship between supercomputers and the cloud. Supercomputers are somewhat large and very specialized. Cloud datacenters are just enormous.