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weatheriscool
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This is what you get when you elect an party that hates science and wants to defund everything again and again. Your nation turns to shit!
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Tachyum to build 50 exaFLOP supercomputer
October 3, 2023
Tachyum is to build a large scale supercomputer based on its 5nm Prodigy Universal Processor chip for a US customer.
The Tachyum supercomputer will have over 50 exaFLOP performance, 25 times faster than today’s systems and support AI models potentially 25,000 times larger with access to hundreds of petabytes of DRAM and exabytes of flash-based primary storage.
The Prodigy chip enables a significant increase in the memory, storage and compute architectures for datacentre, AI and HPC workloads in government, research and academia, business, manufacturing and other industries.
Earlier this year the Slovak/US company detailed a 20 exaflop supercomputer architecture using the Prodigy chip which is expected to sample next year.
Installation of the Prodigy-enabled supercomputer will begin in 2024 and reach full capacity in 2025. This will provide 8 Zettaflops of AI training for big language models and 16 Zettaflops of image and video processing. This would provide the ability to fit more than 100,000x PALM2 530B parameter models or 25,000x ChatGPT4 1.7T parameter models with base memory and 100,000x ChatGPT4 with 4x of base DRAM.
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tachyum ... rcomputer/
October 3, 2023
Tachyum is to build a large scale supercomputer based on its 5nm Prodigy Universal Processor chip for a US customer.
The Tachyum supercomputer will have over 50 exaFLOP performance, 25 times faster than today’s systems and support AI models potentially 25,000 times larger with access to hundreds of petabytes of DRAM and exabytes of flash-based primary storage.
The Prodigy chip enables a significant increase in the memory, storage and compute architectures for datacentre, AI and HPC workloads in government, research and academia, business, manufacturing and other industries.
Earlier this year the Slovak/US company detailed a 20 exaflop supercomputer architecture using the Prodigy chip which is expected to sample next year.
Installation of the Prodigy-enabled supercomputer will begin in 2024 and reach full capacity in 2025. This will provide 8 Zettaflops of AI training for big language models and 16 Zettaflops of image and video processing. This would provide the ability to fit more than 100,000x PALM2 530B parameter models or 25,000x ChatGPT4 1.7T parameter models with base memory and 100,000x ChatGPT4 with 4x of base DRAM.
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tachyum ... rcomputer/
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This is nuts, but after looking at projected performance charts, this seem to be in line with the predictions for 2025. Still, what a time to be alive.
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Russia Plans to Use Banned Nvidia H100 GPUs to Build Top 10 Supercomputers
By Anton Shilov
published about 3 hours ago
Russia has an ambitious plan to build up to ten supercomputers by 2030, each potentially housing 10,000 to 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. From a computing perspective, this would provide the nation with performance on a scale similar to that which was used to train Chat GPT. Formidable in general, a system featuring so many H100 GPUs could produce some 450 FP64 TFLOPS, which is half of an ExaFLOP, a level of supercomputer performance that has only been achieved by the U.S., so far.
Spearheaded by the 'Trusted Infrastructure' team, the Russian project promises to push the boundaries of computational capabilities, with each machine potentially boasting between 10,000 to 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. However, the desired compute AI and HPC GPUs would come from Nvidia, an American company.
The war Russia started in Ukraine had led the U.S. to restrict tech exports to Russia. creating a gaping hole in the procurement strategy for processors like Nvidia GPUs. Thus, the question that hangs in the air is: how could Russia bypass these restrictions since it would seem impossible to smuggle thousands of valuable AI and HPC GPUs?
The financial landscape also presents a set of challenges for the Russians. With today's hardware prices, the project's budget would be about $6 billion, making it a colossal investment. However, rapid advancements in technology have the potential to reduce costs in the coming years. Perhaps by 2030, these systems could cost $500 - $700 million.
Russia's most powerful supercomputer is Chervonenkis, it is owned by Yandex and is equipped with 1,592 nodes featuring Nvidia A100 GPUs. It ranks 27th in the world for computational power, with a performance of 21.53 PetaFLOPS. Three of the seven Russian supercomputers belong to Yandex (Lyapunov, Chervonenkis, and Galushkin), two to Sberbank (Christofari and Chrisofari Neo), and one each to MSU (Lomonosov) and MTS (GROM). All of them operate on Nvidia GPUs from previous generations.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russi ... rcomputers
By Anton Shilov
published about 3 hours ago
Russia has an ambitious plan to build up to ten supercomputers by 2030, each potentially housing 10,000 to 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. From a computing perspective, this would provide the nation with performance on a scale similar to that which was used to train Chat GPT. Formidable in general, a system featuring so many H100 GPUs could produce some 450 FP64 TFLOPS, which is half of an ExaFLOP, a level of supercomputer performance that has only been achieved by the U.S., so far.
Spearheaded by the 'Trusted Infrastructure' team, the Russian project promises to push the boundaries of computational capabilities, with each machine potentially boasting between 10,000 to 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. However, the desired compute AI and HPC GPUs would come from Nvidia, an American company.
The war Russia started in Ukraine had led the U.S. to restrict tech exports to Russia. creating a gaping hole in the procurement strategy for processors like Nvidia GPUs. Thus, the question that hangs in the air is: how could Russia bypass these restrictions since it would seem impossible to smuggle thousands of valuable AI and HPC GPUs?
The financial landscape also presents a set of challenges for the Russians. With today's hardware prices, the project's budget would be about $6 billion, making it a colossal investment. However, rapid advancements in technology have the potential to reduce costs in the coming years. Perhaps by 2030, these systems could cost $500 - $700 million.
Russia's most powerful supercomputer is Chervonenkis, it is owned by Yandex and is equipped with 1,592 nodes featuring Nvidia A100 GPUs. It ranks 27th in the world for computational power, with a performance of 21.53 PetaFLOPS. Three of the seven Russian supercomputers belong to Yandex (Lyapunov, Chervonenkis, and Galushkin), two to Sberbank (Christofari and Chrisofari Neo), and one each to MSU (Lomonosov) and MTS (GROM). All of them operate on Nvidia GPUs from previous generations.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russi ... rcomputers
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weatheriscool
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China Plans to Hit 300 Exaflops of Compute Power by 2025
The country is ramping up its AI arms race against the West.
By Josh Norem October 9, 2023
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/c ... er-by-2025
The country is ramping up its AI arms race against the West.
By Josh Norem October 9, 2023
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/c ... er-by-2025
A new kind of conflict is brewing between China and the West, and it involves semiconductors instead of weapons and territory. The country's ministries have announced plans to expand its computing power significantly in the coming years, intending to hit 300 exaflops by 2025. This would require it almost to double its supercomputing power in the next two years, which is a goal the US would certainly like to prevent or at least slow down if possible.
The move by China is aimed at helping it maintain parity with the supercomputing power of the US. This long-running conflict has been given new life thanks to the recent push to build systems for training large language models (LLM) for AI applications. According to CNBC, six government ministries announced China's 300 exaflop goal, making it clear the country isn't backing down in its quest for computing supremacy despite broad US sanctions aimed at preventing it from acquiring advanced computing hardware. The country's ministries said its desire to obtain this level of computing power is fundamental to its goals in education and finance, which apparently isn't sarcasm.
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UK’s first exascale supercomputer project goes to Edinburgh
October 9, 2023 - 11:24 am
The UK today said it had selected Edinburgh to host its first exascale next-gen supercomputer, which will be 50 times faster than its current highest capacity system.
The University of Edinburgh will house the country’s new exascale computing facility, which the government says will “safely harness its potential to improve lives across the country.” It will build on the technology and experience from the planned Bristol supercomputer — the AI Research Resource (AIRR), or Isambard-AI.
“If we want the UK to remain a global leader in scientific discovery and technological innovation, we need to power up the systems that make those breakthroughs possible, said Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology.
“This new UK government funded exascale computer in Edinburgh will provide British researchers with an ultra-fast, versatile resource to support pioneering work into AI safety, life-saving drugs, and clean low-carbon energy,” she continued.
Today’s announcement comes hot on the heels of last week’s declaration that the EU will build its first exascale computer in Germany.
https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-first-ex ... -edinburgh
October 9, 2023 - 11:24 am
The UK today said it had selected Edinburgh to host its first exascale next-gen supercomputer, which will be 50 times faster than its current highest capacity system.
The University of Edinburgh will house the country’s new exascale computing facility, which the government says will “safely harness its potential to improve lives across the country.” It will build on the technology and experience from the planned Bristol supercomputer — the AI Research Resource (AIRR), or Isambard-AI.
“If we want the UK to remain a global leader in scientific discovery and technological innovation, we need to power up the systems that make those breakthroughs possible, said Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology.
“This new UK government funded exascale computer in Edinburgh will provide British researchers with an ultra-fast, versatile resource to support pioneering work into AI safety, life-saving drugs, and clean low-carbon energy,” she continued.
Today’s announcement comes hot on the heels of last week’s declaration that the EU will build its first exascale computer in Germany.
https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-first-ex ... -edinburgh