Ask HN: You are given a PETAFLOP of compute, what do you do with it?

1•FattiMei•4mo ago

Assuming no concerns on electricity bills, no mining or renting, it is yours (you don't have to share). 1 PETAFLOP was the best supercomputer in 2010 or the #500th in 2020. Assume limited fraction of GPUs

Comments

iefbr14•4mo ago

Without any exploitation costs, mining bitcoins would be my first choice.

toomuchtodo•4mo ago

Protein folding and pharma simulation

incomingpain•4mo ago

So a DGX spark at fp4? or a 5090?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark...

I imagine it's not signficant in terms of bitcoin mining.

I'd use it for LLM inference. Probably GPT 120b would be best on a dgx spark.

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