Actually, LLNL (the site of El Capitan) has a process for requesting Dedicated Application Time (a DAT) where you use up to a whole machine, usually over a weekend. They occur fairly regularly. Mostly it's lots of individual users and jobs, like you said though.
almostgotcaught|1 year ago
i mean rick stevens et al can grab all of polaris too but even so - it's just a bunch of nodes and you're responsible for distributing your work across those nodes efficiently. there's no sense in which it's a "single computer" in any way, shape or form.
llm_trw|1 year ago