People legit can't cope with others having a GPU. Sad to see.

Nuclear detonation modelling

Neither AMD not Intel are the "good guys." Both are corporations that while we may support one or the other for whatever reason, we should not treat as if they are an individual we personally know or as if they are infallible.

While not exciting weather predictions and analysis is a big one.

Astrophysics is another popular one.

Anything where you need to do calculations that have large numbers of variables.

True. Frontier is for the US department of energy right? The company that bought the E10K probably was not. AFAIK the E10K requires a 100 amp power line and back in those days (late 90’s) I don’t think performance per watt was a thing they worried about, could be wrong though.

What do they get these super computers to do? Like what calculations are they running for this kind of power to make sense?

What’s it power draw? Isn’t something like 30000 kWh only like $3000 a month? Which sure isn’t cheap but if you’re buying these super computers, I feel like $3000 is a drop in the bucket for them

Edit: yup, made a huge mistake in calculation. Much much larger number

An exaflop in a singular computer… that’s absolutely insane :O

If you include distributed computing then Folding@Home is probably the fastest in the world with 2.43 exaflops of power since 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

I’m probably 8 feet from the screen. I should of said that but that’s what I meant by “Xbox experience” I have a desk that I use with a ultra wide, but 90% of my gaming is done on the couch.

Sitting at arms length from a 55inch tv isn't good. You might not notice it right now but you'll def feel it later on and wish you never did it.

30k kW, that is almost 30MW. wow!

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It's a lot, but the performance per watt is actually really good, and that's what matters. It's the sixth most energy efficient supercomputer: https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2022/11/

Then quantum computers would simply become the next supercomputers as it's just a term for commercial purposes with multiple stacks, you do realise that right?

What we are using can be termed as Classical Computers and if tomorrow's iPhone is a quantum computer onto everyone's hands then there's no reason a supercomputer in a University then would still be a classical computer.

Look at the 2nd one on the list.

29,000 almost 30k KW of power!

21,000 kilowatts of power. That's a lot, right? I read a story recently about a company that bought a Sun Enterprise 10000 server and an executive shut it down when they got the electricity bill.

Intel the good guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration

Frontier, the first supercomputer to exceed 1 exaFLOPS/s, almost three times as fast as number two. Powered by Epyc CPUs and AMD Instinct compute accelerators.

Here's the current list: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/11/

What’s with the downvotes this isn’t a serious comment

Supercomputers aren't really meant to be impressive tech demos, at the end of the day they're meant for actual real-world applications

Quantum computers can still be fast.

You just won't be able to know where they are.

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At the moment EPYC is just too good and new chips are looking even better so I don't see this changing any time soon. Considering AMD was literally almost down and out a decade a go, can't wait to see what Intel fires back with or what other architectures have in store.