Post by ShrimpBrime on May 7, 2019 22:55:35 GMT -5
I've read at such sites like The Verge and CNet that AMD and Cray are going to make a massive super computer able to produce over 1.5 exaflops of processing power and is expected to go online in 2021. Long story short, the Super computer is going to be used by the US Gov to do Nuclear and Climate research. They also plan to use it to "accelerate innovation in AI.
This size of computer is called Exascale computing. Exaflops is explained as quintillions of calculations per second. A single quintillion is any digit with 18 zeros behind it or simply in example : 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 digits per second.
The literal size of the super computer is some 7,300 square feet, basically a large warehouse.
According to what I've read, this is a huge score for AMD. The contract will be in the 600M dollar range. It will house AMD's EPYC processors and each connected to four Radeon Instinct GPUs.
Further more, AMD hasn't built a "super computer" since 2012 that was in the ORNL Titan computer which was capable of roughly 17.5 petaflops per second.
A picture of today's Super computing.
This size of computer is called Exascale computing. Exaflops is explained as quintillions of calculations per second. A single quintillion is any digit with 18 zeros behind it or simply in example : 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 digits per second.
The literal size of the super computer is some 7,300 square feet, basically a large warehouse.
According to what I've read, this is a huge score for AMD. The contract will be in the 600M dollar range. It will house AMD's EPYC processors and each connected to four Radeon Instinct GPUs.
Further more, AMD hasn't built a "super computer" since 2012 that was in the ORNL Titan computer which was capable of roughly 17.5 petaflops per second.
A picture of today's Super computing.
