Supercomputing News -inside baseball episode 2

The University of Texas share of TACC's Horizon shrank from a thousand Blackwells to 432 as prices rose, and KISTI needed six tender rounds and 53% more budget. Matt Walters of Supercomputing News and I dig into memory rising another 120%, a billion dollars of quantum announcements, emulated FP64 and the TOP500, why China stays on-prem, the UK grid queue stalling Nscale, and the two companies supplying lasers for co-packaged optics. CHAPTERS 00:00 Episode two, and SC is a month out 00:56 A billion dollars of quantum announcements 05:25 Memory up 120% and tenders that keep failing 09:16 Will the TOP500 accept emulated FP64? 12:02 Alibaba, on-prem culture and China's domestic stack 19:05 Power is the bottleneck, and the UK grid is stuck 29:32 Who makes the light? Co-packaged optics #ai #hpc #scientificcomputing #opensource #supercompputer #supercomputing