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Who exactly were you going to buy equipment from? AMD/Nvidia/Intel are the only players in town.
by frodo8sam 1y ago
Who exactly were you going to buy equipment from? AMD/Nvidia/Intel are the only players in town.
- themgt 1y agoChina with SMIC and Huawei's Ascend 910C would be an example of what you do if you want to pursue strategic autonomy. It's like asking "who exactly were you going to buy a 6th generation fighter from?"
- timlatim 1y agoWithout questioning this idea on political grounds, I am not sure if it would be at all possible for an Ascend 910C cluster to enter the supercomputer rankings. I could not find a public datasheet on this chip (would appreciate a link), but my impression is that it is an AI accelerator that does not target FP64, whereas TOP500 is looking at HPC (FP64) performance [1]. [1] https://top500.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions/ https://top500.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions/
- standardUser 1y agoUntil a year ago, few thought there would ever be a need for Europe to have strategic autonomy from the US in an area that was already solved by trade agreements. Presumably this project was conceived long before that.