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usertests Is this using TSMC nodes? The GFLOPS/W is comparable to others with the Green500 #1 being 41% more efficient, while El Capitan is only at 17%. Top500 website is broken as usual with nonfunctional links to Green500 lists. Reply
TechieTwo …and I have some ocean front property in Arkansas that you'all be interested in buying. 😉 Reply
bit_user The article said: Each LX2 CPU relies on two compute chiplets and has a total of 304 CPU cores organized into eight CPU clusters containing 38 cores each. … The chip features a rather unusual memory architecture that pairs 32 GB of on-package HBM, offering up to 4 TB/s of bandwidth with as much as 256 GB of external DDR5 So, the whitepaper they previously published goes into quite some detail about its memory subsystem, which is highly NUMA. In fact, to such an extent that they optimized their code on it by running separate MPI nodes on each of those 38-core clusters, since each cluster has a local HBM stack and relatively poor inter-cluster and inter-die bandwidth. Also, the dependence on that relatively small amount of HBM to scale performance makes it fairly unsuitable for general-purpose workloads, even though it can theoretically handle them. The article said: In any case, the very fact that a Chinese supercomputer has achieved extraordinary FP64 performance is remarkable. Not their first. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_TaihuLight IMO, the remarkable thing is its efficiency (if accurate). I think scaling up ExaFLOPS is not that hard, if your pockets are deep enough, but efficiency would be a better signifier of sophistication and advancement. However, even that can be swung by $$$, since you can easily boost perf/W by simply running more nodes at lower clock speeds. Due to the relative cost of energy vs. silicon, most HPC operators prefer to run their chips towards the upper end of the power envelope, which hurts them on efficiency metrics. Reply
trica I'll believe the results when they've been verified in-person by a team of 100% non-Chinese examiners. I'm even less likely to believe anything coming from the CCP than I am the manipulated information distributed by the US government, and that's really saying something. Reply
nookoool usertests said: Is this using TSMC nodes? The GFLOPS/W is comparable to others with the Green500 #1 being 41% more efficient, while El Capitan is only at 17%. Top500 website is broken as usual with nonfunctional links to Green500 lists. In other articles, it is mention to be Huawei chips. Reply
usertests nookoool said: In other articles, it is mention to be Huawei chips. It seems like they did a good job on making the supercomputer efficient, especially if they were limited to some SMIC DUV-based 5nm node. Reply
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