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by pclmulqdq 1261 days ago
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.
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With the exception of double precision performance, TPUv4 is in every way a supercomputer in terms of networking.