Talk:Fastra II

	Fastra II was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result September 7, 2010 Good article nominee Not listed October 19, 2010 Good article nominee Not listed January 31, 2011 Good article nominee Listed June 11, 2025 Good article reassessment Delisted Current status: Delisted good article

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Please reword the article, it's not a supercomputer

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

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]

GA concerns

This older GA (2011), whose nominator has been blocked for socking, has significant sourcing issues - there is a fair proportion of uncited text and the article is very heavily reliant on sources from the company selling this product. I do not believe the sourcing here is up to the modern standard. If these concerns are not addressed, the article should go to WP:GAR. Hog Farm _Talk 02:52, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]