Comments on: TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comment-233431 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:56:46 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647#comment-233431 At 16,000 feet, the Alps’ Mont Blanc will remain I’m sure roughly twice as high as Texas’ 8,800 feet Guadalupe Peak, and 20 times Austin’s Bonnell Mountain. But, yes, who could blame TACC’s Stanzione for seeking to build new Horizons that can indeed elevate Austin TX from its Faulty Balconies (or is it Balcones Fault? And if not, whose fault is it?) and into the stratospheric heights of the Venado (13,000 ft, 130 PF/s peak), and Alps (16,000 ft, 353 PF/s peak) of this world!

The most important question to be answered at this time, by this newly installed Vista onto the vertiginous 388 PF/s peak Horizon of upcoming high performance computational oomph, is clearly not “what can those redlegged, bigheaded, high plains gracehoppers do for you?”, nor is it, interestingly enough, “what can you do for those redlegged, bigheaded, high plains gracehoppers?” (obviously), but rather: which local specialty of food is it that must be associated with this here newfangled machinery? It’s swiss cheese for the Alps, and blue corn tortillas for the Venado, but what of the Horizon? “Inquisition minds” … 8^b

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