> They might use components that share a common heritage with their COTS cousins (in that they're not being developed specifically for a single supercomputer)

> They might use components that share a common heritage with their COTS cousins (in that they're not being developed specifically for a single supercomputer) That's what I'm talking about. This system isn't just new arrangement of off-the-shelf x86/x64-based CPUs or commodity GPU cores with exotic interconnects. > Packaging and cooling has been solved, btw. and the company indeed sells a "plug-and-play" system I'm aware that they have a product. My interest would be in hearing about how they solved their packaging, power, and cooling challenges. That's actually more interesting to me than the capabilities of the system to deliver neural network processing. There had to be a ton of fun engineering in figuring out how to make a system out of the raw technology.