[paxys]

That talk is from 2009 though. Nowadays companies regularly run jobs on commercial data centers which can include thousands of GPU cores, Infiniband networking and other specialized equipment. One can make a pretty valid case that we are approaching the ability to make an ad-hoc supercomputer for yourself from the GCP console.

[benstrumental]

This talk was from April 2021. 2009 is the year he got his PhD[2].

[2] https://jeffhammond.github.io/