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by pero 3065 days ago
is their real supercomputer 32bit? because if it's not then i'm not sure how they are validating anything
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I would imagine going from a 10-node to 100-node system is more overall complicated than going from 32 to 64. Sure the instructions change, but that should basically be all abstracted away by the toolchain. However job management, allocation, data logistics, queues, cache invalidation, bottlenecks, etc, are all key issues that compound non-linearly with scale.