Comments on: The Great Danes Get A Supercomputer For AI And Maybe HPC https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/23/the-great-danes-get-a-supercomputer-for-ai-and-maybe-hpc/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:15:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: The Dane https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/23/the-great-danes-get-a-supercomputer-for-ai-and-maybe-hpc/#comment-238951 Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:15:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144869#comment-238951 Danish HPC and AI users are not that thrilled unfortunately. As a nonprofit fund Novo can transfer money to it without paying taxes, with the expectation that the foundation will benefit society broadly. Yet they were allowed to create a company for Gefion and it is expected that Novo itself will be the main customer and that the foundation will give money to life sciences to buy time at Gefion, effectively recouping the money without paying taxes, and even getting 100 MDKK of public funds in the process. A part from that it is a big boost to Danish HPC capacity that unfortunately is an order of magnitude per capita below neighboring countries.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/23/the-great-danes-get-a-supercomputer-for-ai-and-maybe-hpc/#comment-238294 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:40:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144869#comment-238294 In reply to Slim Albert.

Thanks for the catch, Slim. I will update.

]]> By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/23/the-great-danes-get-a-supercomputer-for-ai-and-maybe-hpc/#comment-238275 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:35:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144869#comment-238275 Nice! At 51 PF/s in FP64, this Danish Gefion fits in the top 25 machines of Top500 (for this past June at least)! (BTW there’s a slight typo in the Table in my estimation, where these 51 PF are written as 0.51 EF rather than 0.05 EF — which makes it look “surprising” that FP16 perf is then just 3x that 0.51 at 1.5 EF/s; the cost per FP64 TF may need adjusting too)

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