In this video they mention bringing 85 megawatts of power into building 453. I worked for 34 years in Los Angeles DWP generating stations, I operated units that at full power could generate 185 megawatts of power. So 85 megawatts of power is a tremendously huge amount of electrical power. I suspect that one challenge of these supercomputers will be building supercomputers that are more efficient in their electrical power consumption. Also it is not just supercomputer drawing tremendous electrical power it is also the tremendous amount of air conditioning and water chiller electrical power to keep everything cool.
The question that comes to my mind is how would they get that amount of power from the grid to themselves? Because surely something drawing half the capacity of a power station must have to have dedicated lines back to the power station? And please know I know nothing about Power distribution. But surely if you were to start pulling 85 MW out of the local grid you would crash the area? So how would that work please?
There is the Green500 benchmark that ranks supercomputers by their performance per watt. As of November 2024, first place goes to JEDI in Germany at 72.733 GFlops per watt. But RMax is only 4.5 PFlops, 500x slower than El Capitan.
2 Exaflops and in a few years when FU Berlin and the MIT is right in a few years even Laptops with the new ONN-Chips were they have build allready the prototyp, will reach 160 Petaflops (80 terraflops best graphic card x 2500 - the ONN-Chip prototyp allready was 20-25 times (FU Berlin says 20 Times, MIT says 25 times) faster then the fastest normal chip of the same size and 100 times less energy consumation, and the university FU Berlins says its easy to speed this up, up to 100 times faster with a higher laser frequency. means 25 x 100 = 2500). Means it would need in a few years only 20 ONN Chip Laptops to reach 3,2 Exaflops. It will be a new milestone. When 2 or 3 workstations in a few years reach the computing power of he El Capitain which costs hundreds Millions Dollars. The beginn of a new Era. And they said its easy to build, they used only thinks that allready exist so in a few years the massproduction can start.
If you go to Wikipedia, you can see that El Capitan's cost is 600million dollars. Aurora supercomputer is 500million dollars, but It maybe use much more electricity.
it's COMING!
Can't wait for details
In this video they mention bringing 85 megawatts of power into building 453. I worked for 34 years in Los Angeles DWP generating stations, I operated units that at full power could generate 185 megawatts of power. So 85 megawatts of power is a tremendously huge amount of electrical power. I suspect that one challenge of these supercomputers will be building supercomputers that are more efficient in their electrical power consumption. Also it is not just supercomputer drawing tremendous electrical power it is also the tremendous amount of air conditioning and water chiller electrical power to keep everything cool.
The question that comes to my mind is how would they get that amount of power from the grid to themselves? Because surely something drawing half the capacity of a power station must have to have dedicated lines back to the power station? And please know I know nothing about Power distribution. But surely if you were to start pulling 85 MW out of the local grid you would crash the area? So how would that work please?
There is the Green500 benchmark that ranks supercomputers by their performance per watt. As of November 2024, first place goes to JEDI in Germany at 72.733 GFlops per watt. But RMax is only 4.5 PFlops, 500x slower than El Capitan.
I got a tour of Stampede a number of years ago in Austin Texas; el Cap would be nice to see once really buzzing!
This feels super surface-level. I want more! It gives me factorio vibes, too.
I think they don’t want to reveal the details. Guess it’s used for something else.
I can't imagine how the jobs are split onto thousands of CPUs/GPUs - this must be a science by itself.
I was just thinking that. I wonder if there's a sort of central management node that you give programs to that distributes it across all of the nodes
This will be in your school library in 20 years.
That’s a very good point.
When can we get early access to El Cap? It's tough to design software for MI300A when you only have MI250X around...
Cool 😎
got any extra PC parts laying around? My gaming machine died, last month
what OS does it run with? Any info on CPUs/GPUs?
Red Hat Linux
Can it play doom?
No specs? No cost?
600 million i heard
Where do old supercomputers go to die?
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2 Exaflops and in a few years
when FU Berlin and the MIT is right in a few years even Laptops with the new ONN-Chips were they have build allready the prototyp, will reach 160 Petaflops (80 terraflops best graphic card x 2500 - the ONN-Chip prototyp allready was 20-25 times (FU Berlin says 20 Times, MIT says 25 times) faster then the fastest normal chip of the same size and 100 times less energy consumation, and the university FU Berlins says its easy to speed this up, up to 100 times faster with a higher laser frequency. means 25 x 100 = 2500). Means it would need in a few years only 20 ONN Chip Laptops to reach 3,2 Exaflops. It will be a new milestone. When 2 or 3 workstations in a few years reach the computing power of he El Capitain which costs hundreds Millions Dollars. The beginn of a new Era. And they said its easy to build, they used only thinks that allready exist so in a few years the massproduction can start.
And I am working with a 6 year "OLD" animal.
This video gives us nothing. Get a little technical
its just more gear to spy on us and do their nuke weapon calculations...
They want you to build your own
It is funny that it already seems dated.
Not once did they provide the cost of this..... worse, they kept this vague, so as to not actually tell us anything.
If you go to Wikipedia, you can see that El Capitan's cost is 600million dollars. Aurora supercomputer is 500million dollars, but It maybe use much more electricity.