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What if you run the algorithm on a supercomputer...
by zyang 7y ago
What if you run the algorithm on a supercomputer...
- klyrs 7y agoMy understanding is that it's an ASIC for a modified simulated annealing algorithm, not a supercomputer. OTOH simulated annealing doesn't hugely benefit from parallelism, so the comparison is a bit of a snore. Edit: my mistake, that's a different Toshiba offering. Sibling comment has a better description and a citation.
- inasio 7y agoIt's more a QUBO solver (ala D-Wave) that can be efficiently parallelized on GPUs, they were able to "solve" a QUBO with 100K variables on 8 GPUs [1], where before people had solved at most problems with 10K variables. [1] https://phys.org/news/2019-04-toshiba-breakthrough-algorithm-world-fastest.html https://phys.org/news/2019-04-toshiba-breakthrough-algorithm...
- anfractuosity 7y agoAlso https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/sbm/sbm.htm https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/sbm/sbm.htm seems to give a link where you can play with it via AWS as far as I can tell.
- GuB-42 7y agoYes, the title makes no sense. Like "this recipe is better than a gas stove", "this movie is more enjoyable than a TV" or "this key is more secure than a safe". We are not comparing the same thing.