Unfortunate Thursday evening correction: MN5’s ARM partiion (partition 3) is not 163 PF/s (that’s partitions 1 & 2 that have SR and SR+H100; also, partition 4 may be a RISC-V roadrunner MEEP+ACME accelerator), so, from TNP and BSC sources below:

Upcoming: MareNostrum 5____BSC, Spain_____2xGrace_____2 PF/s

BSC source: https://www.bsc.es/marenostrum/marenostrum-5
TNP source: https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/16/atos-wins-marenostrum-5-deal-at-barcelona-supercomputing-center/

Speaking of the German language; want to know the unrevealed hidden mysterious secret truths about Sam Altman, Andy Feldman, Mark Zuckerberg, Albert Einstein, and Benoit Mandelbort? Read on!

German is basically a glued-up version of English, where pairs of words (or more) are frequently concatenated. Some words are exactly the same (barbarian languages of the vandals, as opposed to civilized Latin):

ein = one, zwei = two, drei = three, alt = old, jahr = year
gut = good, besser = better, warm = warm
wasser = water, eis = ice, strom = stream, fluss = flow
feld = field, stein = stone, haus = house, zentrum = center
stern = star, volks = folks, wagen = wagon, auto = auto
brot = bread, zucker = sugar, creme = cream, sauerkraut = sauerkraut
montag = monday, freitag = friday

Others are slightly different:

berg = mountain, eisen = iron, klein = small, schön = beautiful
bahn = way, mandel = almond, tag = day

And there you have it, their deepest secrets finally revealed: 8^p

Sam Altman = Sam Old Man (doesn’t look his age!)
Andy Feldman = Andy Field Man (very hard working!)
Mark Zuckerberg = Mark Sugar Mountain (very sweet!)
Albert Einstein = Albert One Stone (keystone of modern physics!)
Benoit Mandelbrot = Benoit Almond Bread (deliciously fractal!)

A couple more ARM HPC Supers (from Europe), from my Monday evening list:

Existing: Deucalion________Portugal_______A64FX______10 PF/s
Upcoming: Isambard 3_______Bristol, UK____2xGrace_____3 PF/s
Upcoming: MareNostrum 5____BSC, Spain_____GH200_____163 PF/s

For cloudy HPC (if that floats your ALUs), my partial Sunday evening list for ARM is:

AWS. . . . . . Graviton3E (V1)
Alibaba ECS. . Yitian 710 (N2)
Google . . . . Ampere Altra (N1)
Microsoft. . . Ampere Altra (N1)
Oracle . . . . Ampere Altra (N1)

Some cloudy Huawei Kunpengs should probably be in there too.

Existing: Fugaku…….. A64FX
Existing: Tianhe-3…… Phytium 2000 + Matrix 2000
Existing: Wuhan Super… Kunpeng 920 + A100
Existing: Cloudbrain-II. Kunpeng 920 + Ascend 910,
Imminent: Venado…….. GH200
Imminent: Piz Daint-Nxt. GH200
Upcoming: Jupiter……. Rhea 1 + Nvidia GPU
Upcoming: Fugaku-Nxt…. Monaka

The Wuhan Super is quite close to #1 Fugaku on graph500, and both realize 4x as many Traversed Edges Per Second (TEPS, GTEPS) as #3 Frontier ( https://graph500.org/ ).

I like HPCG too. I think that it is more relevant to FEM and FDM workloads than HPL. Sparse data access performance is also likely nicely represented by Graph500, which is useful (at least) for high-performance symbolic computations (the non-silly type of AI). It’d be nice if there were a HPCG-MxP benchmark (HPL-MxP is at the bottom of the HPCG page on top500.org), but maybe mixed-precision doesn’t work all that well with preconditioned iterative methods (???).

Keshav Pingali is going to receive the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award at SC23 Denver ( https://awards.acm.org/kennedy ) for his work on parallelism of irregular algorithms involving sparse matrices and graphs (increasingly relevant today). I’m going to try and read his 2011 paper on “The Tao of Parallelism in Algorithms” (a classic) as an axonal decongestant — hopefully it works!

When, in 1855, Adolf Fick adapted Joseph Fourier’s 1822 theory of heat diffusion, to describe the diffusion of dissolved substances, He referred to Fourier’s work as dealing with “warmstrom” … arrrgh, warmstorm, scary! But, warm = warm, heat, and strom = current, flux, so he was making an analogy to Fourier’s approach to the heat flux … very thoughtful (easiest language to learn, ahem!)!

BTW, that’s that very same TGV train line (LGV Nord, Eurostar) that goes to London’s St-Pancreas through the Chunnel, as featured in the highly-technical 1996 Tom Cruise documentary “Mission: Impossible”! 8^P

Exactly! The Hauts-de-France, and particularly Picardie, is the French equivalent of Asheville NC for the high-tech datacenter and HPC future of the Paris-Amsterdam corridor, not to mention Hamburg and Copenhagen!

We are the land of Clovis, of the “vase de Soissons”, of Anne Morgan ( https://museefrancoamericain.fr/en/anne-morgan-and-world-war-i-1917-1924 ), of the Maroilles cheese, and of the Buironfosse “Musée du Sabot” (wooden shoe; think Flanders, and also “sabotage”; http://www.musee-du-sabot.com/ ). We are where François Ier made the French language official, and we are not only the original “sans dents” (eg. Deliverance), but also the place where the world-famous Charlemagne, Condorcet, Dumas, LaFontaine, Matisse, Racine, and Verne were born (among others). Unsurprisingly, a good chunk of Hugo’s Les Misérables took place right here (eg. Arras).

There is plenty of space in the Hauts-de-France, great transportation (TGV, Canal Seine-Nord Europe, CDG airport), much more water than in the drying-out South, and wind power is everywhere! And it’s a straight shot to Amsterdam’s SURF, the Dutch partner on the Jules Verne Exaflopping Supercomputer; much, much, much more accessible than Bruyères-le-Châtel!

I know. Right?