Supercomputers - ExaFLOPS barrier falls

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TOP500 - Wikipedia

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Frontier supercomputer debuts as world’s fastest, breaking exascale barrier | ORNL

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The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking today as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.

Frontier features a theoretical peak performance of 2 exaflops, or two quintillion calculations per second, making it ten times more powerful than ORNL’s Summit system. The system leverages ORNL’s extensive expertise in accelerated computing and will enable scientists to develop critically needed technologies for the country’s energy, economic and national security, helping researchers address problems of national importance that were impossible to solve just five years ago.

 

[dan_inbox]

Hmmm. ExaFLOPS is about fast computing.
Exaflop is about what? an epic failure?

 

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True. Somehow 'ExaFLOPS barrier falls' didn't sound right. Changed title.

 

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[sferrin]

First MegaFLOP computer - IBM 7030 1961
First GigaFLOP computer - Cray 2 1985
First TeraFLOP computer - ASCI Red 1997
First PetaFLOP computer - Roadrunner 2008
First ExaFLOP computer - Frontier 2022

Next up: ZetaFLOP - 2040-ish?

Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops

Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe — China and

www.nextplatform.com

 

[Foo Fighter]

I don't think I'll replace my pc just yet, that would be my flat rather than in it.

 

[piginapoke]

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But can it run Crysis?

 

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But can it run Crysis?

Crysis probably, but for Crysis 4 you will have to wait until 2027.

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D--sSNKiVXg

 

[Grey Havoc]

US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remain Shrouded

The HPC industry, after years of discussions and anticipation and some relatively minor delays, is now fully in the era of exascale computing, with the

www.nextplatform.com

 

[Orionblamblam]

First MegaFLOP computer - IBM 7030 1961
First GigaFLOP computer - Cray 2 1985
First TeraFLOP computer - ASCI Red 1997
First PetaFLOP computer - Roadrunner 2008
First ExaFLOP computer - Frontier 2022

Next up: ZetaFLOP - 2040-ish?

Surprisingly linear:

 

[Grey Havoc]

Too much focus in recent times on certain architectures and paradigms, you think?

 

[sferrin]

First MegaFLOP computer - IBM 7030 1961
First GigaFLOP computer - Cray 2 1985
First TeraFLOP computer - ASCI Red 1997
First PetaFLOP computer - Roadrunner 2008
First ExaFLOP computer - Frontier 2022

Next up: ZetaFLOP - 2040-ish?

Surprisingly linear:

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I remember the Cray 2 from high school because in those days it was the computer everything was compared to. "The ATF will have a computer as fast as the Cray 2", for example. Then, in the early days of the modern internet, I discovered the Top 500 Supercomputers list and saw that ASCI Red topped the charts. (I remember it because of the unique name.) Now here we are with Frontier a million times faster than ASCI Red and a billion times faster than a Cray 2.

 

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The link in sferrin's earlier post said Zetaflops by 2027, so maybe before 2040.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The link in sferrin's earlier post said Zetaflops by 2027, so maybe before 2040.

First MegaFLOP computer - IBM 7030 1961
First GigaFLOP computer - Cray 2 1985
Gap: 24 years
First TeraFLOP computer - ASCI Red 1997
Gap:12 years
First PetaFLOP computer - Roadrunner 2008
Gap: 11 years
First ExaFLOP computer - Frontier 2022
Gap: 14 years

Based on that, the next step, ZetaFLOP, would be *about* 12 years from the last, or 2034-ish. Getting there by 2027 would mean it only took 5 years, a substantial acceleration from the existing trend.

 

[shin_getter]

Now that supercomputers can be for porn, I look forward to accelerated investment timelines

 

[aim9xray]

PornCoin(TM).

What could possibly go wrong?

 

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The link in sferrin's earlier post said Zetaflops by 2027, so maybe before 2040.

First MegaFLOP computer - IBM 7030 1961
First GigaFLOP computer - Cray 2 1985
Gap: 24 years
First TeraFLOP computer - ASCI Red 1997
Gap:12 years
First PetaFLOP computer - Roadrunner 2008
Gap: 11 years
First ExaFLOP computer - Frontier 2022
Gap: 14 years

Based on that, the next step, ZetaFLOP, would be *about* 12 years from the last, or 2034-ish. Getting there by 2027 would mean it only took 5 years, a substantial acceleration from the existing trend.

Depends how many nodes you use though. You could theoretically do 1 Zetaflop now, but you would need a shed load of CPUs and GPUs.

 

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PornCoin(TM).

What could possibly go wrong?

Stock explodes prematurely then fizzles out.

 

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https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/microsoft-quantum-computer-roadmap-8679811/

Microsoft announces roadmap for creating the first true quantum supercomputer​

Microsoft believes that the path to quantum computing isn’t unlike the path to today’s supercomputers.​

 

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NVIDIA Reveals Eos Supercomputer: 4,600 H100 GPUs for 18 AI Exaflops - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

NVIDIA Thursday released a video that offers the first public look at Eos (pictured here), a monster 18.4 exaflops FP8 AI supercomputer powered by 576 DGX H100 systems... NVIDIA said Eos would be ranked no. 9 on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, according....

insidehpc.com

What Is an Exaflop?

An exaflop is a measure of performance for a supercomputer that can calculate at least one quintillion, or a billion billion, floating point operations per second.

blogs.nvidia.com

*Just a caveat. This is not proper FP64 Exaflops, this is AI doing it's thing to determine what is the correct precision (FP64, FP32, FP16 or FP8) to use for the current task. This makes sense, because there's no point in say putting '1 x 2' in as an FP64 operation.

That said if 18.4 AI Exaflops equated to 121 Petaflops, 645 AI Exaflops may well be equal to 4.2 Exaflops.

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2023/11/

 

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Then there's this:

Cerebras and G42 Complete 4 exaFLOP AI Supercomputer and Start the March Towards 8 exaFLOPs - Cerebras

Condor Galaxy takes flight towards the goal of nine interconnected supercomputers with 36 exaFLOPs of AI compute capacity

www.cerebras.net

Cerebras and G42 launch the world's largest AI supercomputer with 36 Exaflops

You've maybe not heard of either of these companies, but both are revolutionary in their field ...

www.fanaticalfuturist.com

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cerebras-chip-cs3