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		deepnotderp on June 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Change the Bala... It's all in the Interconnects. The hard part of supercomputing is moving data, not computing.

DannyBee on June 29, 2018 [–]

What makes you think google doesn't have good enough interconnects in their data centers? infiniband is not that impressive anymore

"2009: of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, Gigabit Ethernet is the internal interconnect technology in 259 installations, compared with 181 using InfiniBand.[20] "

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