Comments on: Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/22/lawrence-livermores-el-capitan-to-take-amds-instinct-apu-mainstream/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/22/lawrence-livermores-el-capitan-to-take-amds-instinct-apu-mainstream/#comment-193215 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:43:16 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140802#comment-193215 In reply to Mark Wroblewski.

Megawatts. Dear god, gigawatts won’t happen for a decade yet, and we will have fusion then….

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/22/lawrence-livermores-el-capitan-to-take-amds-instinct-apu-mainstream/#comment-193147 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:03:32 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140802#comment-193147 In reply to Mark Wroblewski.

Curious, isn’t it? I been thinking about that, too.

]]> By: Mark Wroblewski https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/22/lawrence-livermores-el-capitan-to-take-amds-instinct-apu-mainstream/#comment-193141 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:55:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140802#comment-193141 Hi Tim,
I’m curious: in your Frontier piece you mentioned total built-out power draw of 29 or 30 GW IIRC. For El Capitan, you note about 40 GW. Are the architectures that dissimilar, or the FLOPS ratings that diverse, or something else? Otherwise I have to believe Frontier learnings would help El Capitan’s budgets. What am I missing, please?

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/22/lawrence-livermores-el-capitan-to-take-amds-instinct-apu-mainstream/#comment-193113 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:07:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140802#comment-193113 The possibility that single-package CPU+GPU chiplet designs will replace discrete GPU accelerators just as fast as FPU accelerators disappeared years ago may explain why Nvidia needed to buy ARM and conversely why ARM needed Nvidia.

Even with that deal cancelled, my hope is that Nvidia will survive the crypto-mining crash and produce competitive Grace Hopper CPU+GPU combinations suitable for AI and high-performance computing. More choices are always better, especially when there are so many supply-chain problems.

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