Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Desktops reach 1 petaflop

Saw this article for a personal AI supercomputer for $3000 that delivers 1 petaflop of performance.  Compare this with the first machine to reach a petaflop in 2008.  So in only 17 years we have gone from:


  • $120,000,000
  • 130,464 processor cores
  • 103,000 GB ram
  • 296 cabinets
  • 2,345,000 watts power
  • Retired 2013
to this (tiny beige box to left of monitor): NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
  • $3,000
  • ~20,000 cores (not known exactly)
  • 128GB ram
  • 1 tiny box
  • 1,500 watts
In 17 years this is a:
  • Cost reduction of 99.99%
  • Core reduction of 84.67%
  • Ram reduction of 99.88%
  • Size reduction of 99.99%
  • Power reduction of 99.93%
What do you think will happen in the next 2 decades?

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