We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …
China is using a domestic processor as the backbone for double the performance of the Tianhe-2 system, which topped the Top 500 starting in 2013 and running through late 2015 before being overshadowed by the Sunway system in recent years. …
The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. …
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. …
We are starting to see more exascale and large supercomputing sites benchmark and project on deep learning capabilities of systems designed for HPC applications but only a few have run system-wide tests to see how their machines might stack up against standard CNN and other metrics. …
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
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