Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers
by svantana on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:05AM
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Your arithmetic is in the ballpark -- the article says this machine has 40k processors. But, firstly, these are double precision numbers, I believe that lowers nvidia performance substantially. Furthermore, scaling is not as trivial as putting them in the same room -- you need massive networking, cooling and power supply. Also, while the LAPACK benchmark can work pretty well on GPUs, the stuff that the computers actually is used for might not.
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