Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
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Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#2What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer?
Myself: What does 42 mean?
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#3What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer? Myself: What does 42 mean?
Asimov wrote a short story[0] about this exact scenario!
Many people at HN have probably read this already, but maybe some of them could be part of the lucky 10,000![1]
[0] https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/...
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#4What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer? Myself: What does 42 mean?
I don't think that's the sort of question a supercomputer like this can answer. It has additional compute power - it doesn't have any breakthrough in the AI itself.
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#5Now the important questions:
1) does it run FarCry?
2) are the GPUs limited in their ETH hashrate?
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#6Not just for perl!
> namesake of Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#7> Python programmers will be able to use RAPIDS, Nvidia’s open software suite for GPU-enabled data science
Ah not to be confused with OpenAI Rapid described at https://openai.com/blog/openai-five/ ^_^
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#8What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer? Myself: What does 42 mean?
Dude it's just a bunch of GPUs with a fast network...
Source: Berkeley PhD student in supercomputing, have access to Perlmutter.
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#9Now the important questions: 1) does it run FarCry? 2) are the GPUs limited in their ETH hashrate?
1) It runs Linux, so you're limited to 0 A.D.
2) No, it has the extremely expensive server GPUs, so their drivers should be normal.
Re: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
#10Are they gonna use the supercomputer for their NFTs?
[1] https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/05/27/cal-will-auction-nft...