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martinpw
2y ago
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The supercomputer flops are FP64. The A100 stats you are using are FP16.
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jeffbee
2y ago
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It's fine. We will simply run weather forecast in BF16 mode and hallucinate the weather.
dgacmu
2y ago
Introducing our next supercomputer, Peyote.
adgjlsfhk1
2y ago
weather forecasting is actually moving to reduced precision. none of the input data is known to more than a few digits, and it's a chaotic system so the numerical error is usually dominated by the modeling and spacial discretization error
CamperBob2
2y ago
A black Sharpie marker is even cheaper...
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