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195 points rbanffy | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.724s | source
1. ted_dunning ◴[] No.42184073[source]
There is another widespread common factor among the top machines. A large majority are based on HPE Slingshot networking (7 out of top 10 by my count).

Without blindingly fast, otherwise blinding numerical performance dims quite a lot. This is why the Cerebras numbers on heavy numerical problems are competitive up to a pretty severe ceiling. Below that point, their on wafer interconnects suffice, above it they cannot scale the data communications bandwidth necessary.