Hewlett Packard Enterprise Will Build a $160 Million Supercomputer in Finland (venturebeat.com) 9
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has been awarded over $160 million to build a supercomputer called LUMI in Finland. LUMI will be funded by the European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC, a joint supercomputing collaboration between national governments and the European Union. From a report: The supercomputer will have a theoretical peak performance of more than 550 petaflops and is expected to best the RIKEN Center for Computational Science's top-performing Fugaku petascale computer, which reached 415.5 petaflops in June 2020.
No thanks (Score:2)
Are they going to use the SSDs that stop working when they hit 32768 hours?
Also, âoeLUMIâ... (Score:1)
Gone are the days of Cray (Score:4, Insightful)
Those were Real Super Computers, not today racks of PC's with fancy networks cards.
Today building a super computer isn't that big of a deal, any company can do it, it just cost money. The more money the more PC based blades you can put in. With some clever OS Trickery and custom software to have them all talk to each other you get a faster computer.
Not like the days where the CPU was designed to process the tasks at hand. Every Wire was measured and placed carefully. You had data that was out of sync, you needed to trim a cable an inch.
Where the design of such an equipment meant you needed to know physics, electronics and computer science in one grand unified invention.
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We're starting to see some variations again. The previous top two were POWER9 based with custom Nvidia chips. Fujitsu is using their own processor.
and these are the days of Cray (Score:1)
Don't be fooled by the original announcement which, like many recent HPE
"supercomputing" annoucements, doesn't mention Cray
From the body of the article:
> HPE says that LUMI, which will be hosted at the Finnish IT Center for Science in ...
> Kajaani, Finland, will feature HPE Cray EX servers
so this is still the Shasta technology being developed by Cray, with the fully integrated
water-cooling, albiet without the seats, that just happend to be acquired and rebranded
by HPE, when they brought Cray.
It's not
Printer Cartidges (Score:3)
And the entire super computer will stop working if any of the printer cartridges go empty (even just the color ones).
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Yep,
Worked at HP printer for a few years as a contractor.
The loyalty of that crew is amazing. Ink tampering is a federal crime.
Recruit the fresh out of school and you have them for life.
It's a bit like old tek or atari in the 70's Hope it never changes.
I thought the ink joke was funny, So fuck yourself.
Cheers.