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US retakes first place from Japan on Top 500 Supercomputer ranking (AMD EPYC)
https://www.engadget.com/us-retakes-first-place-on-top-500-supercomputer-ranking-082342025.html
@lupyuen this new exaflop supercomputer has eight *million* CPU cores working on a single LINPACK matrix computation. Oh and some number of MI250X GPUs too, I missed that in the original article.
@lupyuen the system architecture on the Cray EX is pretty extreme, so much is custom. Custom liquid cooling, custom interconnect, custom compute blades... The white paper brochure gives a taste:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/collaterals/collateral.a50002389.HPE-Cray-EX-Liquid-Cooled-Cabinet-for-Large-Scale-Systems-brochure.html?rpv=cpf&parentPage=/us/en/products/compute/hpc/supercomputing/cray-exascale-supercomputer