Computational energy efficiency has become a primary decision criterion for most supercomputing centers. Data centers, once built, are capped in terms of the amount of power they can use without expensive and time-consuming retrofits. Maximizing insight in the form of workload throughput then means maximizing workload per watt. NVIDIA products have, for several generations…
]]>You could make an argument that the history of civilization and technological advancement is the history of the search and discovery of materials. Ages are named not for leaders or civilizations but for the materials that defined them: Stone Age, Bronze Age, and so on. The current digital or information age could be renamed the Silicon or Semiconductor Age and retain the same meaning.
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