The FP64 rate on things like A40, L40, L40s, RTX gaming cards – is abysmal already. Off the top of my head nV only does full rate FP64 on A30, A100, H?00. Not sure if there is an L30.

Get one for me, please. My VII is so lonely.

Two retirees (Summit and Trinity) made room for 3 new entries in the top 25 (CEA-HE, Gefion, Miyabi-G) but not much else seems to have moved at first sight. It’s still Fugaku, Frontier, Aurora, LUMI, Alps, Leonardo … as it was in June (no El Cap, no Eagle, no HPC6, no Tuolumne, …). Here’s to hoping that Mr.DIMM shows up soon enough to shake things up some in this here rodeo show, especially for CPU only bullriders of the Crossroads, Shaheen III, and MareNostrum 5 GPP variety, where it should shine most brightly, and even for accelerated systems if it helps them at all. Imagine if Fugaku had met Mr.DIMM, it could have 32 PF/s its way through the HPCG barrell race and be virtually untouchable (I think)!

Speaking of growth, let’s not forget the conjoined MI300A triplets that sure saw some improvements since this past June. “Grizzly Adams” saw a 24% HPL improvement without (it seems) additional hardware, jumping from 19.6 to 24.4 PF/s (from 61% to 76% of peak perf, now #49). The “American Cro-Magnon of Tuolumne” grew even more to 9x of its original core structure and 10x its previous performance, now at 208 PF/s and #10. And of course, the formerly #46 “early deliveroo” has blossomed into the swashbucklingly charming #1 we all know and love!

They grow up so fast don’t they (and each with their own eventual personnality)! (eh-eh-eh)

Interesting also to observe the choreographic preparation of its likely next adversary, Jupiter, with a jazz ballet target of better than 1 EF/s, at 18 MW of effort (or 56 GF/W) … already met by the new champ. But the JETI, and the JEDI, suggest an even better telekinetic ability to effortlessly perform computational dance moves, as if floating through thin HPC air, with 68 to 73 of these GF/W! The future will be fascinating if such levitation can meet the challenges of scale, in a fullsize exaflopping ballroom blitz! Already, little ROMEO, and little Adastra 2, seem anxious to step into the dance shoes of their bigger chanllengers in this contest …

And its great seeing the Alps growing to nearly twice its former size, reaching new peaks of gut-warming performance in the Top500 waltz fondue! Nowhere else in the world could such hearty melding of HPC choreography and gastronomy be achieved, while surrounded by glaciers! 8^b

OK. I will ask for a baker’s dozen.

Three 😀