TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma

Re:TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma by amelius on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:02PM (#48713114)

GPUs are for graphics (the G in GPU). These systems are used for more general computations.

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Re:TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma by galaxy_quest on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:40PM (#48713387)

I’m not sure if I’m missing a joke, but that’s why we have general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) which is why 8/10 of the top 10 machines have GPUs.

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Re:TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma by antonvs on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:59PM (#48714276)

GPUs were for graphics. Now, they're mainly used for machine learning training and inference. The big tech companies are spending eye-watering amounts for GPUs - hundreds of billions of dollars a year each. That's the reason that Nvidia's market cap is at $4.66 trillion.

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Re:TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma by microgpt on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:38AM (#48716026)

In between those, they were for Ethereum mining.

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Re:TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma by rbanffy on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:17AM (#48718296)

Before Ethereum, I believe Bitcoin sold a lot of GPUs as well.

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