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Even with all the hype around deep learning and GPUs, the weather services are building a lot of new, CPU-only supercomputers [1]. There are plans to use more G
by dguest 3y ago
Even with all the hype around deep learning and GPUs, the weather services are building a lot of new, CPU-only supercomputers [1]. There are plans to use more GPUs and ML in the coming years, but the weather models are real, tangible, economically impactful and strategically essential products. It's pretty inspiring to see governments dumping a huge amount of computing power into the working models, and also funding research ideas.
[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/11/7/114 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/11/7/114