China unveils world’s first refrigerator-sized supercomputing unit: media - Global Times
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    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Very possibly not, because Crysis was made with an assumption that CPU performance would continue to be just faster and faster single cores forever, but modern high performance compute goes for many cores instead.

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I mean… sure. It’s all pretty relative though. People have been making clusters of raspberry pis to test supercomputer cluster software for years and those pi clusters fit in a cereal box. Equally my phone has the computer power of a 5000x Cray 1 supercomputers. Not saying it isn’t impressive hardware - but the ‘worlds first claim’ is a a bit dubious.

    Some of the fancier labs I’ve worked with have what you’d consider a small supercomputer in the corner of the room to analyse experimental data in a timely manner. And I doubt they were the first to do it.

    This is a fancy local ai machine in a small package.