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Super computers are much larger than a few racks of GPU's.
by ssully 5y ago
Super computers are much larger than a few racks of GPU's.
- ceejayoz 5y agoYou could fit any of the TOP500 machines into one of Facebook's datacenters, couldn't you? With room left over to spare? It's not like Facebook had to go hollow out the Moon to make this.
- jeffbee 5y agoThe largest machine in the top500 draws 30MW, which is getting to be close to the size of a Facebook or Google datacenter. All the rest are much smaller. Mostly people misunderstand the relationship between supercomputers and the cloud. Supercomputers are somewhat large and very specialized. Cloud datacenters are just enormous.
- riantogo 5y agoMany years back the military connected some 1700 PS3s to create the world's 35th most powerful supercomputer. That needed few racks and could do 500 tflops. One latest XBox can do 12 tflops sitting in your living room. Of course the supercomputers would also have gotten magnitudes faster since. But hope this gives some sense of physical size.