LFCS: A $99 *not* supercomputer

> I can't say for sure that Andreas wrote that, but one would guess he could
> at least have put a stop to it if he wanted.

It's too bad if Andreas is pushing this view. It's misleading.

> And the board does have:
> processor, memory, network, I/O, software

Well of course it does. It is a computer system after all.

> perhaps not in sufficient quantity/quality for your taste, however.

It's not about my taste at all. Ask anyone in HPC. The fact that processor, memory, network, I/O and software are robust, tightly coupled and highly tuned is what separates a supercomputer from a cluster and from Parallella.

Just as one example, GigE is nowhere near enough to handle climate simulations, modeling stars and analyzig combustion. It's not just about bandwidth and latency.