AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier

Source: Hacker News

Article note: It's almost refreshing how _boring_ this thing is. It's a bunch of AMD EPYCs, a bunch of AMD's now-differentiated HPC only DP-focused "GPU" SIMD engines, tied together by some enhanced HPE/Cray fancy Ethernet (and apparently secondary fast IO that isn't actually up yet). It's not full of AI pixie dust. It's not hitting numbers by working on low-precision values. It's not 4 years late (looking at you, Intel's ANL Summit Aurora contract). It's water cooled (not special environmental catastrophe sauce). It is, however, sucking down 40MW to do it, at 400KW per rack.
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