https://archive.is/E3hrx Because they tried to keep me from browsing away when I hit back.
Good link. Thanks.
TIL: “An exascale computer is a massive computer system stored in cabinets within warehouses or research buildings. These computers are usually owned by governments but can be owned by large conglomerates. Essentially, exascale supercomputers have such an incredibly high cost to build that scientists and researchers typically use grants to rent them.”
via: https://www.hpe.com/nl/en/what-is/exascale.htmlThe mention of Rhea is cool. These are massive ARM processors with a lot of SIMD, and HBM and DDR5 hanging off them:
Kinda like Fujitsu’s mad (but now old) ARM A64FX:
The links I’m finding aren’t working now, but the US Dept of Energy ported code to them for a paper, and apparently loved that kind of architecture compared to GPUs and traditional CPUs: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/10/olcf-to-trial-long-awaited-fujitsu-processors-in-arm-based-test-bed-system/
I never heard of exascale systems before, can someone help me which of these is true: according to the article “The machine will cost over half a billion euros…” and “… will cost €554 billion…”.
Heh, Tom’s is a bad source:
Alice Recoque will be co-funded with a total budget of around EUR 355 million covering the acquisition, delivery, installation, and maintenance of the system. The EuroHPC JU will finance 50% of the total cost through the Digital Europe Programme (DEP), while the remaining 50% will be funded by France, the Netherlands and Greece within the Jules Verne consortium.