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AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia

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195 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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latchkey ◴[18 Nov 24 21:57 UTC] No.42177553[source]▶
I'm sure there is also a lot not on the Top500. I've got enough AMD MI300x compute for about 140th position, but haven't submitted numbers.
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1. aiforecastthway ◴[19 Nov 24 03:49 UTC] No.42179946[source]▶
Top500 is weird for lots of reasons. It over-indexes on a few peculiar types of workloads and a few peculiar types of users (mostly gov).

Historically, those workloads and users were leading indicators of certain types of things. I don't think that's true anymore. In fact, I wonder if this is mostly a story of the government agencies not being able to compete with the private sector for NVIDIA gpus.

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2. latchkey ◴[19 Nov 24 11:44 UTC] No.42182389[source]▶
I think you nailed it on the head.

Companies like CoreWeave have deployed so many giant clusters (and growing), it is insane. Their IDLE compute is larger than most of the supercompuers out there.

Of course, they aren't on the list either.