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by gttalbot 1260 days ago
Isn't the average Google data center larger than this?
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The average Google/AWS datacenter doesn't have the networking to support the kinds of high-adjacency work that supercomputers do. The biggest ones may be able to score higher on Linpack if they tried, but at much higher power.
With the exception of double precision performance, TPUv4 is in every way a supercomputer in terms of networking.