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Good articleFastra II has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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September 7, 2010Good article nomineeNot listed
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January 31, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Current status: Good article

Please reword the article, it's not a supercomputer

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The article needs rewording as it is not a supercomputer and gives the wrong impression. A supercomputer, as also linked to from the article, is several orders of magnitude more powerful than this box. It is also not a custom design, but uses common desktop components that anyone with a decent budget can build in a single case. 12 TFLOPS is not the kind of processing power a supercomputer has, that is measured in PFLOPS.

It's a powerful calculator, certainly, but a far cry from what it claims to be (regardless of what the media has called it).

Wolfbeast (talk) 09:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree; first, it says "desktop super computer" which differentiates it from regular super computers. Also, it is a custom design like all modern super computers:
Today, parallel designs are based on "off the shelf" server-class microprocessors, such as the PowerPC, Opteron, or Xeon, and coprocessors like NVIDIA Tesla GPGPUs, AMD GPUs, IBM Cell, FPGAs. Most[which?] modern supercomputers are now highly-tuned computer clusters using commodity processors combined with custom interconnects.
cheers --DeVerm (talk) 17:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Grammar errors

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Under "Applications and reception": "Fastra II relies on Nvidia's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) and is therefore limited to the number of GPUs supported by it and also by the vendor respectively the free and open-source device drivers"

The last part of the sentence makes no sense to me; what is it trying to say? --BeanSprugget (talk) 18:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]