Supercomputers do optimimize for different things, e.g. they have faster and lower latency network interconnects. But, over time the differentiation will diminish as the public cloud providers invest more.
You can't beat economics and the public cloud market will grow to be much larger than the supercomputing market. This is similar to why supercomputers switched from bespoke processors to commidity x86.
You can't beat economics and the public cloud market will grow to be much larger than the supercomputing market. This is similar to why supercomputers switched from bespoke processors to commidity x86.
AWS already has several instance types with 25Gbit ethernet, for instance: http://www.ec2instances.info/?cost_duration=monthly&reserved...