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Just simply pause for a second and admire this part: 10 trillion per second. No matter how you look at it, that's a lot.
by cosmodisk 6y ago
Just simply pause for a second and admire this part: 10 trillion per second. No matter how you look at it, that's a lot.
- p1esk 6y agoThat's a lot, but the way to look at it is: "how many TOPS per second per watt when we run Resnet-50 on it"
- infogulch 6y agoThe ars article linked above¹ says that one advantage that optical processors may have is that the majority of the heat generated by the system comes from the laser source, not the processor itself. Imagine 'turning on' a datacenter by flipping the switch on a 10MW laser :D ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691582