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Supercomputer market is still there. Intel Sapphire rapids owes its existence to the next US nuke design (to be made on Aurora supercomputer.)
by baybal2 5y ago
Supercomputer market is still there. Intel Sapphire rapids owes its existence to the next US nuke design (to be made on Aurora supercomputer.)
- kolbusa 5y agoI don't think so. The new ISA that is in the SPR is mostly about deep learning: it supports int8 and bfloat16 (https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3600/the-x86-advanced-matrix-extension-amx-brings-matrix-operations-to-debut-with-sapphire-rapids/ https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3600/the-x86-advanced-matrix-...). You can emulate higher precision using bfloat16 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06376 https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06376), but I have not seen this used in the wild.
- freemint 5y agoYou know about surrogate models being run in simulations (physics informed neural network and all that stuff) the US is investing a lot in this. Maybe then it makes sense why bfloat16 exist in SPR.