[Beowulf] AMD and AVX512 [EXT]

[Tim Cutts]

I think that’s a major important point.  Even if the whole of the HPC market were clamouring for it (which they’re not, judging by this discussion) that’s still a very small proportion of the worldwide CPU market.  We have to remember that we in the HPC community are a niche market.  I recall at SC a couple of years ago someone from Intel pointing out that mobile devices and IoT were what was driving IT technology; the volume dwarfs everything else.  Hence the drive to NVRAM - not to make things faster for HPC (although that was the benefit being presented through that talk), but the fundamental driver was to increase phone battery life.

Tim

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On 19 Jun 2021, at 16:49, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com<mailto:ghenriks at gmail.com>> wrote:

I suspect that is marketing speak, which roughly translates to not
that no one has asked for it, but rather requests haven't reached a
threshold where the requests are viewed as significant enough.




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