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AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia

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195 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pie420 ◴[18 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42176400[source]▶
layperson with no industry knowledge, but it seems like nvidia's CUDA moat will fall in the next 2-5 years. It seems impossible to sustain those margins without competition coming in and getting a decent slice of the pie
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metadat ◴[18 Nov 24 20:17 UTC] No.42176440[source]▶
But how will AMD or anyone else push in? CUDA is actually a whole virtualization layer on top of the hardware and isn't easily replicable, Nvidia has been at it for 17 years.

You are right, eventually something's gotta give. The path for this next leg isn't yet apparent to me.

P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop, and how significant is it? The numbers thrown around in this article don't mean anything to me. Is this new cluster way more powerful than the last top?

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1. smokel ◴[18 Nov 24 21:33 UTC] No.42177319[source]▶
> P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop

1 petaflop = 10^15 flops = 1,000,000,000,000,000 flops.

1 exaflop = 10^18 flops = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 flops.

Note that these are simply powers of 10, not powers of 2, which are used for storage for example.