• PablogeloB
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    10 months ago

    The bigger news is in the last paragraph:

    Meanwhile, Microsoft’s new Eagle supercomputer, deployed in the Azure Cloud, has now taken the number three spot on the list, pushing Japan’s Fugaku into fourth place on the leaderboard. Eagle is the first cloud system to break the top ten.

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      10 months ago

      Meh. Microsoft didn’t even even bother running HPCG on it. Fugaku is still #1 on HPCG, followed by Frontier.

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        10 months ago

        Doesn’t matter, there’s a cloud system in top ten. Change of times

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          10 months ago

          I think you’re overstating the impact of this development. The US, PRC, EU, and Japan national programs are sticking to systems in supercomputer centers, universities, and government facilities for the foreseeable future. The main reasons for this are practicality (how exactly does one migrate several PB of data in the cloud, for instance), security, and politics. Thus, I’d expect things at the top-end of supercomputing to stay more or less the same. Industrial users who want cheap supercomputing occasionally might be pleased, but that’s not what the leading supercomputing centers do.