I wonder what the process is for an organisation, after setting up their machine, to run benchmarks and be able to claim a spot among the top500. Is there a set of benchmarks that I could run, say, on my homelab cluster to tell me how far from the 500th spot my gear is?
I’m pretty sure there is a specific set of benchmarks decided by the organization that does the rankings and i believe its also heavily focused on higher precision data types like FP64.
The DOE has also historically been the key funding source for supercomputers; not least because that kind of compute capacity makes it possible to simulate (in great detail) the function of new nuclear weapons. The fact that China now has the new number one supercomputer may well indicate that China is indeed advancing its own nuclear weapons program, which Beijing has engaged in also not to be left behind the US and Russia.
Well yeah if you’re constantly engaged in trying take over any Asian country that has money and constantly antagonizing the west, you should probably have military capabilities that are top tier.
These systems for fp64 compute are so much more interesting than AI data centers that are all about low precision compute.
I wonder what the process is for an organisation, after setting up their machine, to run benchmarks and be able to claim a spot among the top500. Is there a set of benchmarks that I could run, say, on my homelab cluster to tell me how far from the 500th spot my gear is?
I’m pretty sure there is a specific set of benchmarks decided by the organization that does the rankings and i believe its also heavily focused on higher precision data types like FP64.
Is the US DOE the only department looking after Supercomputers ?
Why pour more $$ into DOE
The DOE has also historically been the key funding source for supercomputers; not least because that kind of compute capacity makes it possible to simulate (in great detail) the function of new nuclear weapons. The fact that China now has the new number one supercomputer may well indicate that China is indeed advancing its own nuclear weapons program, which Beijing has engaged in also not to be left behind the US and Russia.
I really, really, can’t blame China for executing that failsafe policy, in case everything goes wrong.
Well yeah if you’re constantly engaged in trying take over any Asian country that has money and constantly antagonizing the west, you should probably have military capabilities that are top tier.