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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by jackhack on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#14317818)
"supercomputers" are archaic in a day when one can rent a 40,000 core GPU system with 732GB of RAM for $14/hour, on demand, via Amazon Web Services. Available whether you need one or a hundred (4 million cores crunching on a problem with 20Gb/second throughput is still only $1400 per hour). edit: more thorough response.
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by pvg on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:37PM (#14317918)
No, they aren't. Unless you think everyone building them is stuck in the past and wasting a lot of money, unaware of Amazon's offerings.
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by 21 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:56PM (#14318987)
A CUDA core and a CPU core is not quite the same thing.

40000 CUDA cores are much slower and more constrained than 40000 CPU cores.

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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by dman on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:34PM (#14317897)
Where are you getting the 40000 core number from?
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by jackhack on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:40PM (#14317947)
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-p2-instance-type-for-am...
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