[Gerlo]

Aurora was supposed to go into production years ago and be the first exascale supercomputer. Intel is dog shit, so this kept getting delayed. Now they're going for the two exaflop mark. It's pathetic that Aurora is only now benchmarking over an exaflop, and it's even more pathetic than this is apparently newsworthy.

[JonChesterfield]

The link is Intel's own website. Has excellent quotes on it like:

> Why It Matters: Designed as an AI-centric system from its inception

Announcement was in 2015. I'm curious whether Argonne are pleased with it.

[Gerlo]

>Announcement was in 2015. I'm curious whether Argonne are pleased with it.

All I'll say is that you can probably guess how they feel about it given the context.

[alephnerd]

Intel was chosen because the DoE wanted to foster an entire ecosystem of GPU vendors, because having a single vendor is a MASSIVE bottleneck.

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia were all vendors on Exascale projects [0]

> Intel is dog shit

Intel has issues with execution, but their engineers are still top notch. They are the last American company to actually do semiconductor fabrication, and only fell behind TSMC and Samsung in fabrication only 6-7 years ago because they didn't choose to invest in EUV lithography instead of other methods.

[0] - http://helper.ipam.ucla.edu/publications/nmetut/nmetut_19423...

[CaliforniaKarl]

Case in point, Intel’s discrete consumer GPUs: They’re making major gains with each driver release, and I hope to see them seriously competing with nvidia in the gaming market.

[hi-v-rocknroll]

A solution can always be achieved by spending more money.™ Rather than engineering for economic scale, engineer for maximizing billable hours and make yourself indispensable. - Consultant's credo

With all of the taxpayer money they've wasted so far, they could've bought zillions of Cerebras WSE-3 and exceeded 10 exaflops.