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DoE has absolutely no incentive (nor need, I'd argue) to compare their supercomputers to commercially owned data center operations though. Comparing their craz
by makeitdouble 2y ago
DoE has absolutely no incentive (nor need, I'd argue) to compare their supercomputers to commercially owned data center operations though.
Comparing their crazy expensive custom built HPC to massive arrays of customer grade hardware doesn't bring them additional funds, nor help them more PR wise than being the owner of the fastest individual clusters.
Being at the top of some heap is visibly one of their goal:
https://www.energy.gov/science/high-performance-computing https://www.energy.gov/science/high-performance-computing
- khm 2y agoDOE clusters are also massive arrays of customer grade hardware. Private cloud can only keep up in low precision work, and that is why they're still playing with remote memory access over TCP, because it's good enough for web and ML. High precision HPC exists in the private cloud, but you only hear "we don't want to embarrass others" excuses because otherwise you would be able to calculate the cost. On prem HPC is still very, very much cheaper than hiring out.