While I would've agreed with you several years ago, I doubt that is the case these days.
This is some serious power--not only being produced, but being consumed.
“This is some serious power—not only being produced, but being consumed.”
Yes. Almost 10 MW for the top system now. It’s impressive at almost 1/2 million cores, but (so far) isn’t using the heterogeneous approach of adding GPU processing.
NVIDIA may become a major player in supercomputing between GPU accelerators and high-end ARM processors, which it is also going to push for desktop use. The ARM architecture is quite power efficient, and would seem to be a natural fit for these massively parallel machines.
It will be more than a little ironic if Windows supports the new NVIDIA ARM RISC processors while Apple sticks with Intel... LOL
With 80 global warming models running quadrillions of calculations every second you’d think the scientists could develop one that would model the economy and the effects of a new carbon tax on it.