Come on Ian! We all know the correct English is "It is fairly easy to be emmarveled"
(Note to foreign readers. This is a joke about English that is not worth explaining if English is not your first language. Just know that NEITHER form is correct.)
Hmm, must be one brute of a power supply, and I don't mean just the 20kW rated output capacity, when you consider that modern GPUs can have billions of transistors switching or stopping switching on timescales of thousandths of a second, that puts a lot of demand on instant power delivery.
If your GPU is of the size of most of a silicon wafer on the other hand... How do they solve that? Essentially no power saving mode, burning power continuously regardless of if work is being done or not?
It's actually 12x 4KW power supplies. Some redundancy built in too.
Note that a Transistor has static power and active power - if its not being used for compute, active power is near zero. Also depends on the instructions. Having a cpu at 100% doing a simple loop uses less power than matrix multiplication.
Neat tech! I just hope we can find a way to generate and transmit energy into these important research labs to feed their power demands without burning fossil fuels as well since energy for computation and energy for both system and facility cooling is costing us our only readily accessible, habitable place in the Universe.
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kobblestown - Friday, August 21, 2020 - link
This is the coolest looking machine that I've seen in a long time.name99 - Friday, August 21, 2020 - link
"It is fairly easy to be marveled"Come on Ian! We all know the correct English is
"It is fairly easy to be emmarveled"
(Note to foreign readers. This is a joke about English that is not worth explaining if English is not your first language. Just know that NEITHER form is correct.)
abufrejoval - Saturday, August 22, 2020 - link
I am awed by the discussion, English being 3rd out of 5.FaaR - Saturday, August 22, 2020 - link
Hmm, must be one brute of a power supply, and I don't mean just the 20kW rated output capacity, when you consider that modern GPUs can have billions of transistors switching or stopping switching on timescales of thousandths of a second, that puts a lot of demand on instant power delivery.If your GPU is of the size of most of a silicon wafer on the other hand... How do they solve that? Essentially no power saving mode, burning power continuously regardless of if work is being done or not?
*shrug* Damned if I know.
IanCutress - Sunday, August 23, 2020 - link
It's actually 12x 4KW power supplies. Some redundancy built in too.Note that a Transistor has static power and active power - if its not being used for compute, active power is near zero. Also depends on the instructions. Having a cpu at 100% doing a simple loop uses less power than matrix multiplication.
PeachNCream - Sunday, August 23, 2020 - link
Neat tech! I just hope we can find a way to generate and transmit energy into these important research labs to feed their power demands without burning fossil fuels as well since energy for computation and energy for both system and facility cooling is costing us our only readily accessible, habitable place in the Universe.