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TIL how the old #Cray #supercomputer worked. Apparently it would run the same sequence of instructions over many different data sets at the same time. It could do lots of math in a hurry, but only if it was lots of the *same* math.

It could also run ordinary one-thing-at-a-time software like Unix, but then it wasn't any faster than an ordinary one-thing-at-a-time CPU like the Motorola 68000.

This all sounds awfully familiar. Isn't that how GPUs work?

#retrocomputing

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#NewYork Invests $40M to Launch #EmpireAI Beta with #NVIDIA Blackwell #Supercomputer
#EmpireAIBeta will be 11x more powerful than current capacity, allowing hundreds of researchers from 10 institutions to continue to advance #AI research. Empire AI is now backed by over $500M in public and private funding, including up to $340M in state funds.
Empire AI Beta also is expected to be among the first academic deployments of NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX #GB200 systems.
hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/state #SUNY

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Japan's sequel to #Fugaku #supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth
#Fujitsu picked to build system using '#MONAKAX' #CPU
According to the IT giant, Japan's High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) Program Steering Committee has chosen the #RIKEN research institute as the primary entity responsible for developing the nation's next-gen flagship super, which in turn has awarded Fujitsu the contract to design it.
theregister.com/2025/06/19/jap
#HPC #Supercomputing

Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth

: Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs

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