On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:05:39 -0500, Boating All Out
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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.

I bought a GTX 1080 last fall for $499 A month later the
same card was about $1100. Supposedly it was due to a change
in the Bitcoin market. Miners use these cards by the dozens.

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Miners are still using them from what I hear, but the big cloud data
centers like Google are using a lot more for AI processing.