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BIG BRAIN BECOMES A SUPER COMPUTING MACHINE - How far will it rise up the ladder of the Top 500 Supercomputers?
It was a surprise on one hand and no surprise on the other to learn this week the Big Propeller Powered Big Brain machine has reached super computing status. It has entered the beginning, at the bottom of the measuring scale. Still measured with the yardstick of TeraFLOPs, the Big Brain comparatively barely encroaches into the top 500. Is this a symbolic sign of things to come?
It was a surprise on one hand and no surprise on the other to learn this week the Big Propeller Powered Big Brain machine has reached super computing status. It has entered the beginning, at the bottom of the measuring scale. Still measured with the yardstick of TeraFLOPs, the Big Brain comparatively barely encroaches into the top 500. Is this a symbolic sign of things to come?
Supercomputers have lots of processors to gain multiplicity increasing the ability to harvest speed. Current supercomputers mostly run in the next level of PetaFLOPS. For the Brain to go from T to P involves some serious upgrading. For this potential achievement, we will meet this week with some of the worlds largest producers and distributors of GPU Streaming Core Processor Boards in Taiwan where these boards are designed, manufactured and distributed.
The idea is currently to find the fastest board with the highest number of processors but with last years technology that will drive the board pricing down dramatically. A plot of board speed times the number of boards versus overall Brain performance will be necessary to derive the setup.
Currently, the comparative measurement of the number of processors as a yardstick puts the Brain high on the 500 list but this is superfluous. The number of processors can be related to speed but do not determine speed in every example. For example, processors may be cloned enhanced EV processors designed for neural transmission. However, it's important to understand the varied processor types in the Brain have purposes other than speed, yet supercomputers yardstick benchmarks are fixed at processing speed.
