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

CERN uses PTP on steroids for physics experiments: https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/
dpzmick
·5년 전·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
·6년 전·discuss
similar boxes are on amazon, with worse(ish) specs under the brand "Protectli "
dpzmick
·6년 전·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