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Re:Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said by TOMDM on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:56PM (#29248247)
I think the scale of compute speed really muddies the water with what we traditionally consider a super computer. A DGX pod is probably a super computer imo.

But with some problems we're seeing that we can solve them with petabyte scale lookup tables. Is that a super computer?

I'd really like to hear if there even is a coherent definition anymore or if that line is just blurred forever.

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Re:Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said by dekhn on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:35AM (#29254443)
A full DGX pod, like full TPU pod is a "ML supercomputer". The big detail being that they don't typically support all CPU functionality, and tend to have support only for smaller datatypes (float instead of double). However, neither can act as a full replacement for current HPC codes, although that is a very exciting area of research.
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