US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
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Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#2> The best-case scenario is a system that consumes 20 megawatts...
I guess they will think of throwing in a windmill farm (or something) to power the beast.
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#3I ask this in all seriousness - is IBM still relevant today? I don't actually know how they make most of their money. I assume it comes from legacy enterprise support. The last I heard about them was Watson years ago, and I don't think they ever successfully monetized that?
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#4Too bad they've only committed 86 million $/year to the effort...
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#5Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14564945
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#6I ask this in all seriousness - is IBM still relevant today? I don't actually know how they make most of their money. I assume it comes from legacy enterprise support. The last I heard about them was Watson years ago, and I don't think they ever successfully monetized that?
Well, in terms of high performance computing, IBM makes the BlueGene series of supercomputers. These computers currently occupy the #4 and #9 on the Top500…
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#7I ask this in all seriousness - is IBM still relevant today? I don't actually know how they make most of their money. I assume it comes from legacy enterprise support. The last I heard about them was Watson years ago, and I don't think they ever successfully monetized that?
Recently they've been diving head first into public & especially private clouds. They do a lot in the analytics services areas. And of course - huge enterprise support contracts.
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#8I ask this in all seriousness - is IBM still relevant today? I don't actually know how they make most of their money. I assume it comes from legacy enterprise support. The last I heard about them was Watson years ago, and I don't think they ever successfully monetized that?
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Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#9> The best-case scenario is a system that consumes 20 megawatts... I guess they will think of throwing in a windmill farm (or something) to power the beast.
...and make it a wind-cooled system, so you have cooling that scales with available power!
Yeah, that will get the subsidies!
Re: US Just Picked Intel, IBM, Nvidia, Others to Help Make Supercomputers 50x Faster
#10> The best-case scenario is a system that consumes 20 megawatts... I guess they will think of throwing in a windmill farm (or something) to power the beast.
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