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iberatoryesterday at 8:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

Cloud computing is not a supercomputer. Different architecture, bandwitch, interconnectivity and latencies.


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dgacmuyesterday at 8:42 PM

That's not nearly as true when you look at AI training clusters. They're basically supercomputers but without an FP64 focus.

(These are the systems to which GP was referring at Google.)

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wmfyesterday at 9:18 PM

Historically there have been a bunch of clusters on the Top 500 that weren't used for HPC. The tell is that they used Ethernet (this was before RoCE). It's less efficient but you can still get an OK Linpack score.