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The Summit contract was signed in November 2014: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supercomputers http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supe
by Scaevolus 9y ago
The Summit contract was signed in November 2014: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supercomputers http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supercomputers
Supercomputers have very long planning and development cycles. So do GPUs and CPUs. The contract specified chips that didn't yet exist (Volta and POWER9) as much more than codenames on a roadmap.