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1.5TFLOPS would have made the supercomputer top500 12 years ago. That's amazing.
by MacsHeadroom 9y ago
1.5TFLOPS would have made the supercomputer top500 12 years ago. That's amazing.
- Dylan16807 9y agoKeep in mind that supercomputers are a lot less specialized than circuits for running neural nets. 12 years ago you could have gotten a stack of 5-8 7800 GTX cards and had 1.5TFLOPS of single precision. 11 years ago you could have had a stack of 5 cards with unified shaders. It's not fair to compare against the significantly more complicated route of getting 100 CPU cores working together with only 1-4 per chip.
- amelius 9y agoBut can't you configure the device to do e.g. fast matrix-vector multiplications instead of inference? I can be wrong, but I suspect that's what people do mostly on supercomputers anyway.
- p1esk 9y agoThat 1.5 TFLOPs for TX2 is FP16, while TOP500 is FP64.