Before revision: In the "gold rush" for higher performance numbers, a lot of confusion was introduced in supercomputing. The present paper attempts to clear up the terms through scrutinizing the basic terms, contributions, measurement methods. It is shown that using extremely large number of processing elements in computing systems leads to unexpected phenomena,  that cannot be explained in the frame of the classical computing paradigm.
After revision: Using extremely large number of processing elements in computing systems leads to unexpected phenomena, that cannot be explained in the frame of the classical computing paradigm.