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dpzmick
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
> If so, what's y̶o̶u̶r̶ a use-case?

CERN uses PTP on steroids for physics experiments: https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/
dpzmick
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
I believe there's a hint towards the end of the article:

> Note: Perlmutter’s “AI performance” is based on Nvidia’s half-precision numerical format (FP16 Tensor Core) with Nvidia’s sparsity feature enabled.

FP16 is a 16 bit floating point format. FLOPS for top 500 are measured with LINPACK HPL, which says it is over 64 bit floating point values (I think):

> HPL is a software package that solves a (random) dense linear system in double precision (64 bits) arithmetic on distributed-memory computers. It can thus be regarded as a portable as well as freely available implementation of the High Performance Computing Linpack Benchmark.

(from https://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/)

This isn't totally disingenuous though. These FP16 operations are very useful for some kinds of calculations.
dpzmick
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
similar boxes are on amazon, with worse(ish) specs under the brand "Protectli "
dpzmick
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
this is a reasonable test: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ref.html

but it's pretty straightforward to just copy giant buffers in order/out of order and squint really hard at the results