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		anuvrat1 on May 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exas... Can someone please explain, how software is made at this scale?

mhh__ on May 31, 2022 | [–]

Fairly low tech until you get to the super high end.

You have a blend of very specific domain specific knowledge (e.g. they know the hardware - the interconnects more than the CPUs) and old skool Unix system administration.

sydthrowaway on May 31, 2022 | [–]

Using a HPC Framework, such as OpenMP

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