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The jaw-dropping engineering behind America’s next world-beating supercomputer
- todd8 9y agoNot jaw-dropping engineering so much as a natural evolution by Oak-Ridge National Laboratory. They moved from a design using 1 GPU for each CPU to one with 3 GPUs per CPU. Granted it's a lot of six GPU dual CPU units, 4600 of them. They're water cooled, but so is my gaming PC. I remember attending a lecture given by Seymour Cray on the design and development of the Cray-1; that was jaw-dropping engineering. See [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#Cray_Research_Inc._and_Cray_Computer_Corporation:_1972_to_1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#Cray_Research_Inc._and_Cr...