Thus, a supercomputer is more like a single-node computer than a distributed system: it deals with partial failure by letting it escalate into total failure
If we put distributed systems on a scale we can put hpc on one end and cloud computing on the other. Enterprise datacenters lie in the middle. Hpc hardware works similar to a sinvle node machine, even though is comprise of hundreds of cpus. Cloud computing is made by connecting commodity hardware together hrough network in a multi tenant environment.
