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There's a bit of drama in that there are unofficial reports of two systems in China with higher performance [0], the arXiv paper listed below talks about a 40 m
by inasio 4y ago
There's a bit of drama in that there are unofficial reports of two systems in China with higher performance [0], the arXiv paper listed below talks about a 40 million core system with around double theoretical performance than Frontier, and there's apparently a second system online with similar performance. I personally suspect that they didn't submit benchmarks to the top500 simply because those don't run well enough in the systems
[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.07816.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.07816.pdf
- oefrha 4y agoI heard they won’t submit anymore so as to not draw further scrutiny and possible sanctions onto their suppliers. Not sure if true, but keeping a low profile certainly makes sense given the blows dealt to the more visible vendors in the past few years.
- greggsy 4y agoWhat are the concerns for vendors?
- perihelions 4y agoUS banned the sale of American HPC components to Chinese supercomputers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349116 (2015, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740371 (2021, 151 comments) etc.
- throwaway4good 4y agoThey also prevent Chinese supercomputing related companies having their chips fabbed in Taiwan.
- dekhn 4y agoLet them build those machines and the f they are any good we can steal all their ideas. Turnabout is fair play.