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I like nextplatform and nvidia did just have a great quarter. Tensorflow runs best when accelerated by nvidia GPUs. However, the article vastly oversells nvidi
by arcanus 10y ago
I like nextplatform and nvidia did just have a great quarter. Tensorflow runs best when accelerated by nvidia GPUs.
However, the article vastly oversells nvidia in the HPC space. Intel's MIC platform is targeted at competing with GPUs, and cuda is a closed standard. Nvidia is by no means dominant in HPC, and has parts in only two machines in the top-10, and none that I'm aware of under contruction.
Finaly, Exascale architecture is likely to be radically different than present tech. It could absolutely shake up the environment significantly.
- craigyk 10y agoI believe the DOD already has plans to bring online two new computers in the near future that will retake the crown. At least one of them with Nvidia with a big emphasis on P100 and nvlink.
- synacksynack 10y agoSummit and Sierra are two planned DOE machines with hardware developed in collaboration with IBM and Nvidia. They're slated to feature Volta GPU, a generation past P100's Pascal. More details here: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/ https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/
- craigyk 10y agoOK, that's right, was working from memory. In any case, GPUs are making big inroads into HPC.