back to article America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel

Uncle Sam's Argonne National Laboratory has ordered Polaris – a supercomputer to be built from AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPUs – to test its applications in anticipation of eventually getting the Intel-delayed Aurora super. Polaris will be capable of reaching 44 petaFLOPS of performance at double-precision or FP64, we're …

  1. FILE_ID.DIZ
    Meh

    When your backup super....

    will be still be one the top 10 fastest while you wait on Intel.... well, glad to see that some people are still buying their brand.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    committed to a 2022 delivery

    Which even if Intel manage to make the chips work is going to be tricky - given that they don't have a fab for Xe and TSMC are booked out making AMD and NVIDIA chips.

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