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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 2 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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gnatman ◴[07 Jan 25 18:15 UTC] No.42625457[source]▶
>> The IBM Roadrunner was the first supercomputer to reach one petaflop (1 quadrillion floating point operations per second, or FLOPS) on May 25, 2008.

$100M, 2.35MW, 6000 ft^2

>>Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and students, Project Digits packs Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which delivers up to a petaflop of computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running AI models.

$3000, 1kW, 0.5 ft^2

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DannyBee ◴[07 Jan 25 18:46 UTC] No.42625811[source]▶
Digits is petaflops of FP4, roadrunner is petaflops of FP32. So at least a factor of 8 difference, but in practice much more. (IE I strongly doubt digits can do 1/8th petaflop of FP32)

Beyond that, the factors seem reasonable for 2 decades?

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1. stassats ◴[07 Jan 25 20:34 UTC] No.42627111[source]▶
> roadrunner is petaflops of FP32

Isn't it actually FP64?

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2. DannyBee ◴[07 Jan 25 21:22 UTC] No.42627671[source]▶
So i can find sources that claim both ;) I wasn't sure what to believe, and didn't spend more than 5 minutes digging for the real results, so i went with the conservative one.