What next.. a supercomputer of course

[gpuerrilla]

Not seen it on the forums here yet but worthy of some sharing considering it spans cpu/gpu hardware or so it seems:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...1-5-exaflops-supercomputer-for-us-government/

With a dire outlook around the bulldozer era, things are certainly better now for AMD after the console coup and the Ryzen success of late.

Building such a beast it must surely be able to play crysis once finished!

 

[smilingcrow]

It's been mentioned in multiple threads but no thread dedicated to it.
I'm gonna wait for the reviews and the final clocks as if it's not at least 5GHz then I'm out.

 

[Distracted]

It's been mentioned in multiple threads but no thread dedicated to it.
I'm gonna wait for the reviews and the final clocks as if it's not at least 5GHz then I'm out.

 

[mmj_uk]

The Department of Energy using 40,000,000 Watt computers, but muh global warming.

The ironic thing about it is it'll probably be running global warming models/simulations 24/7 that are never accurate anyway.

 

[humbug]

But but will it run Cr..... oh i better not

 

[blaineoliver]

I worked as part of a team who build and install supercomputers. I know you're joking but I thought it would be informative to say. They actually are pretty terrible at playing Crysis. You can't scale a game beyond a single node. You could have a dual socket node with 4 GPUs inside however, but it's really just a 4u server. You would also have issues as almost all the good clusters run Linux. The CPUs in servers have more cores but a lower clock speed too so won't be hitting 5GHz like the 8700k.

You would have more luck with a Superdome flex, uses numalink to join separate nodes into one large machine running a single OS and running into the TBs of memory, thousands of cores and many GPUs.