Oi, supercomputer folk. This is where the brains of the future come from

Purdue University has participated in more Student Cluster Competitions than any other institutions - nine of 'em in less than 10 years. They must be getting something out of it, right? To answer that question, plus many others, we talked to Dr Gerry McCartney, who is the VP of IT at Purdue. He is also a professor of IT, along …

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Yes...but...

...not with full graphics. The average cluster is only 8 nodes, 160 cores or so, with 6-8 GPUs...they can't be expected to run something like Crysis full out, right?