{"id":32447,"date":"2020-11-02T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=b4e644c62447c8a28ea3d5befd384ca4"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:54:20","slug":"whats-motivating-the-matrix-engine-movement-in-supercomputing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32447","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Motivating the Matrix Engine Movement in HPC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2020\/11\/02\/whats-really-motivating-the-matrix-engine-movement-in-hpc\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The intersection of not just two but three dumb sets of incentives? \r\n\r\nThe latest cycle of ML\/AI BS is all low-precision linear algebra, and everyone wants to ride the hype train before winter arrives again. \r\n\r\nLINPACK, the stalwart old ruler for the international HPC dick-measuring contest is mostly higher-precision linear algebra, and as always, once a metric becomes a target, you only get what you measure.  \r\n\r\nPacking more compute engines you can't possibly feed with any realistic workload is lower-risk than trying memory architectures, and especially easier to do without a bunch of collaboration between players, so it's what gets done.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24980113\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}