Supercomputing with commodity CPUs
Nikola Rajovic, Paul Carpenter, Isaac Gelado, Nikola Puzovic, Alex Ramírez, Mateo Valero · 2013
In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in high-performance computing. This transformation has been so effective that the June 2013 TOP500 list is still dominated by x86.