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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:33:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:28:06 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>>On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:16:58 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
>>
>>> For that kind of stuff you better use GPUs, which have memory systems
>>> with more bandwidth.
>>
>>But with more limited memory, which is typically not upgradeable.
> 
> And yet, supercomputers these days often have lots of GPUs.

Some do, some don’t. I’m not sure that GPUs are accepted as de rigueur in 
supercomputer design yet. I think this is just another instance of Ivan 
Sutherland’s “wheel of reincarnation”
<http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html>.