News Tachyum's First CPUs Are Late, But It Plans 20 ExaFLOPS Supercomputer With Next-Gen CPUs Anyway

[Admin]

Tachyum's Prodigy is still not here, but the its inventor already touts design of its successor.

Tachyum's First CPUs Are Late, But It Plans 20 ExaFLOPS Supercomputer With Next-Gen CPUs Anyway : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Even if they finally manage to deliver some working hardware, it still remains to be seen how well it will perform on real-world tasks, using existing codebases. The HPC world has a long history of lofty promises that don't translate well into usable performance.

By comparison, I think it's instructive to see the approach taken by Tenstorrent: start small and build your way up. Not only iterating on the hardware, but also the software, as you go.

Also, I think the bar for HPC is getting set ever higher, because you not only need to deliver leading performance, but also with extremely good efficiency. Intel learned this the hard way: it's very difficult to beat GPUs with something that's not a GPU. Discrete GPUs have all the same sorts of demands: compute, bandwidth, and efficiency. Even though HPC accelerators have diverged from consumer GPUs, they still share a lot of commonality.

 

[inder2]

I watch over this 2 years of only promises and no progress, its like from alice from Wonderland. This man is out of reality, with performance promises...

 

[inder2]

The liberality to publish everything for cash (sci-fi hardware), i congratulate to tom hardware, our employers are specialist ;-)