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Makau's Peak Sits Below the TOP500 Entry Threshold. Its Center's Stated Mission Is Evaluation, Not Capability.
MHPCC cut Makau's ribbon in August, months after the machine began carrying pioneer workloads. A system 13 times its size arrives at the same center this year.
Time to First Token Is a Real Metric. It Isn't the One That Defines the Era.
Time to first token is the AI industry's favorite candidate for era-defining metric. It is a real whole-stack signal, not a stand-in for business success.
The FP64 Debate Didn't Produce a Winner. It Produced a Joint Byline.
Dongarra, Hoefler, and Matsuoka now ask whether supercomputing needs GPUs at all, and the CPU-only machine atop the Top500 is their test vehicle.
Reconstructing FP64: How Supercomputing's Establishment Is Adapting Science to AI Silicon
Two papers, Matsuoka's FP8-emulation preprints and the Dongarra 'Ride the Wave' paper, point to a field adapting scientific computing to AI silicon it no longer controls.
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Japan's Next Flagship Machine Abandons the Top500 Chase
FugakuNEXT pairs Fujitsu MONAKA-X CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs, ending Japan's all-Arm sovereign architecture and betting on throughput over benchmarks.
Argonne Turns a Plain-English Prompt Into 11,182 GCMC Runs on Aurora
A planner/executor agent hierarchy drove a 5,591-MOF screening campaign across 256 Aurora nodes. Orchestration overhead came in under 90 seconds per run.
Queen's and SFU Want to Build Canada's First Top-10 Supercomputer
Canada currently ranks 78th on the Top500. They'll Need Ottawa's Help.