On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 21:44:05 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:55:00 -0400, wrote:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-a...supercomputer/

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Yep, that's a bigun. My old operation in NJ had a machine on the top
500 list for a while but it didn't come anywhere close to the power of
the one you mentioned. One of the more interesting statistics to me
was this one: Summit has nearly 28,000 graphics processors made by
Nvidia. Each one of those Nvidia graphics boards has 1,000 or more
computational units. Nvidia originally invented that technology to
power the high speed graphics needed by top shelf gaming computers. It
turns out however that they are even more useful for creating the
powerful neural networks used for Artificial Intelligence processing.
Nvidia's graphics procesors are flying off the shelves so fast that
gaming enthusiasts are having a hard time getting their hands on them,
and Nvidia's stock is up 700% in less than 2 years, one of my all time
big winners.

There is a lot more going on in video accelerators than just putting
dots on the screen. They actually try to predict where the next one
goes by what has happened a microsecond ago.
I have a couple on Nvidia cards around here but it is really a waste
of processing power considering what I do most of the time.
The last time I was actually exploiting a video card was when I was
playing DVDs on a PII 266mz