Whilst there are many HPC workloads that are well supported by GPGPUs, we
also have multi-core systems such as Ampere One and AMD EPYC with 192 cores
(and soon even more).
I would think that some of the Blue Gene and NIX work might be relevant on
such hardware.
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 at 15:18, Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote:
> I've thought for a while now that NIX might still have interesting things
> to say in the middle of the space, even if the HPC origins didn't work out.
> Probably most of us are walking around with systems with asymmetrical cores
> ("performance" vs. "efficiency") in our pockets right now; it seems like
> there's lots of space to explore *how* differently to manage these cores
> (as opposed to just spinning them up or not when needed but treating them
> as "regular").
>
> I think it's a good idea. But...
>
> > On Dec 27, 2024, at 08:32, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > There is very little compute that's "cpu-limited" at multi-second scales
> that can't benefit from these approaches, hence the death of non-GPU
> supercomputing.
>
> This is really good framing... even if it's bad for my idea. 🤣 "Compute
> that's "cpu-limited" at multi-second scales" really cuts out most
> applications at modern scale. Plenty of things like pro workflows, but the
> higher up you move there, the more likely you're pushing to GPUs anyway. I
> think the window isn't 0, but it's shrunk quite a bit.
>
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