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by porcoda 1441 days ago
Power efficiency mostly. The power requirements of an exascale machine with 2010-timeframe hardware would be crazy.
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peter303 1441 days ago
Oak Ridge still consumes 20 megawatts. However older technology was appearing to require a gigawatt.
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totallyblasted 1441 days ago
That really helps me appreciate the power efficiency gains! So much improvement in so short time...
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WanderPanda 1441 days ago
But unfortunately power efficiency of GPUs seems to be levelling off recently
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