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AI DataCenters & Training Runs 2025 : How much Energy, how much Money?
There has been a lot of noise in the mainstream press about the massive buildout of AI datacenters across the world.. with the latest being an audacious announcement by the Trump presidency of the $500 billion Project Stargate. The primary market signal of this buildout is “CapEx,” or capital expenditures, reported by the top 5…
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AI 101: What are FLOPS in AI?
Along with an LLM’s “size” in parameters, FLOPS are one of the more confusing terms batted around in AI circles. So: What are FLOPS in AI? In Machine Learning? In supercomputers? Essentially, a FLOPS is a unit of measurement for raw performance of any computer, or chip, or datacenter, and in particular it is used…
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Supercomputer Purpose: Top 10 Apps / Awe-Inspiring HPC benchmarks
GR: In the age of clouds, massive data centers, AWS and Azure, what is a reasonable dedicated Supercomputer purpose? As an answer, outline the top 10 uses of supercomputers today, in 2022. Supercomputer Purpose in 2022: ChatGPT : Supercomputers are some of the most powerful computers available and are used for a variety of high-performance…
