Nvidia Pledges To Built Britain's Largest Supercomputer Following $40 Billion Bid For Arm (cnbc.com) 29
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia pledged Monday to build a $52 million supercomputer in Cambridge, England, weeks after announcing it intends to buy British rival Arm for $40 billion. CNBC reports: The supercomputer -- named "Cambridge-1" and intended for artificial intelligence (AI) research in health care -- is being unveiled by Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang at the company's GTC 2020 conference on Monday. "Tackling the world's most pressing challenges in health care requires massively powerful computing resources to harness the capabilities of AI," Huang will say in his keynote. "The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will serve as a hub of innovation for the U.K., and further the groundbreaking work being done by the nation's researchers in critical healthcare and drug discovery."
Expected to launch by the end of the year, the Cambridge-1 machine will be the 29th most powerful computer in the world and the most powerful in Britain, Nvidia said. Researchers at GSK, AstraZeneca, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS (National Health Service) Foundation Trust, King's College London and Oxford Nanopore will be able to use the supercomputer to try to solve medical challenges, including those presented by the coronavirus. Nvidia said Cambridge-1 will have 400 petaflops of "AI performance" and that it will rank in the top three most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed.
Expected to launch by the end of the year, the Cambridge-1 machine will be the 29th most powerful computer in the world and the most powerful in Britain, Nvidia said. Researchers at GSK, AstraZeneca, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS (National Health Service) Foundation Trust, King's College London and Oxford Nanopore will be able to use the supercomputer to try to solve medical challenges, including those presented by the coronavirus. Nvidia said Cambridge-1 will have 400 petaflops of "AI performance" and that it will rank in the top three most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed.
"Arm"? How much for the leg? (Score:4, Funny)
asking for a friend
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I don't know, but you can the mips really cheap these days.
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ARM = Advanced Risk Machines
LEG = Lofty Exceptional GPUs?
aarrgh my eyes. (Score:3)
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I'm pretty sure a Raspberry Pi could have caught that gaff.
"Built"? (Score:2)
Can't we even copy/paste accurately now?
Re: "Built"? (Score:2)
Lol, we're screwed when backwards time travel becomes a thing and such sentences make (some?) sense.
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Beau HD the H1B. Should be a cartoon character.
Bribary? (Score:2)
... Or will they do this irrespective of if their bid is allowed, or not.
Iinm, China also has to approve it, right? Are nvidia going to build one in China too?
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I believe the current expectation is that nVidia will simply pull ARM out of China.
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Why do people think China has to "approve" something?
An American company is buying a British subsidiary from a Japanese company.
China has no advanced IC fab industry. They do not matter.
Super Computer Competition (Score:2, Insightful)
The idea of the super computer competition is becoming really kind of stupid, faster so what. What the competition in super computers should be about is, 'what they are doing', rather than how fast they are doing nothing. Lets see competition in what is being computed, how accurately it is being done (not fucking pi to pointless numbers), cell simulations, weather modelling, quantum particle theory and quantum particle modelling, modelling the human body, better climate models, modelling development of spac
Re:Super Computer Competition (Score:4, Interesting)
...fucking pi to pointless numbers" I don't know what color the sky is in your world, but the typical performance figures HPC folks have long pursued are real calculations (e.g. LINPACK for solving systems of dense linear equations). There are various other benchmarks, but I've never seen anyone in HPC publishing figures about computing pi.
NVIDIA committing to build such a system clearly is intended to help UK officials believe them when they say they aren't planning on shutting down the UK team and organization.
Ratio (Score:3)
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The Brits sold it to the Japanese, this isn't a bribe. It is a handout among friends.
A petaflop is ... not a thing (Score:1)
nope.
A "petaflop" is 10^15 floating point operations per.
A petaflops, on the other hand, is 10^15 floating point operations per second.
Re: A petaflop is ... not a thing (Score:1)
Incorrect. A petaflop is a singular collective noun. Just like "herd", "dozen", or "murder".
Misdirection (Score:2)
Pledges to built (Score:2)
Improper English in the title! (Score:1)
That would be quite an upgrade... (Score:2)
AI Performance (Score:1)
What's "AI Performance" -- in quotes no less?
Hold on, let me get my "Neural Net" on my nose and mouth first so I don't infect you with my "cyber terms for investors".
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Just don't hook two displays to it (Score:1)
Unless you want to have to tell it how they're orientated and positioned relative to each other every time you reboot.
A side note regarding quantum computing (QC) ... (Score:2)
... if Google, IBM, Intel, and Honeywell actually had something to offer in the way of QC, this article would be redundant.
Perhaps those companies need to slip in a little blurb about blockchain.