The new record-breaking supercomputer

[Newsfeed]

The new record-breaking supercomputer

The U.S. has a new supercomputer and it’s twice as fast as the current record holder in China.

International Business Machines Corp. developed the Summit computer, with help from Nvidia Corp., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

 

[ginggs]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-once-again-boasts-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer/

Summit, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was built for AI. IBM designed a new heterogeneous architecture for Summit, which combines IBM POWER9 CPUs with Nvidia GPUs. It has approximately 4,600 nodes, with six Nvidia Volta Tensor Core GPUs per node -- that's more than 27,000.

No, this won't run Windows.

Edit: With a bit of coaxing, you might be able to get it to run Mac OS X 10.5.

 

[HeftyCrab]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[ginggs]

But can it run Crysis?

Steam says NO.

 

[garyc]

But can it run Crysis?

The Power9 CPU is supported by Linux and Crysis (sort of) runs under Wine. Therefore you should be able to get it working. There are still no benchmarks giving FPS, something about the computer being needed to model a supernova instead.

 

[HeftyCrab]

The Power9 CPU is supported by Linux and Crysis (sort of) runs under Wine. Therefore you should be able to get it working. There are still no benchmarks giving FPS, something about the computer being needed to model a supernova instead.

Clearly they dont have their priorities straight.

 

[ginggs]

The Power9 CPU is supported by Linux and Crysis (sort of) runs under Wine.

Except that Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is a compatibility layer between Windows executables and POSIX-compliant operating systems.

It only runs Windows x86 EXEs on x86 compatible CPUs, and recently Windows ARM EXEs on ARM CPUs.

 

[ponder]

Except that Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is a compatibility layer between Windows executables and POSIX-compliant operating systems.

It only runs Windows x86 EXEs on x86 compatible CPUs, and recently Windows ARM EXEs on ARM CPUs.

Yeah but xbox 360 & PS3 both use some form of powerpc architectures and crysis runs on them so we could potentially skin this cat properly if we're not to anal about it