as an ex-supercomputer nerd (where the fastest system in teh world finally reached over 1 exaflops of double precision), it seems awfully weird to call FP8 "flops". There's nothing truly wrong with it (since "flops" is a fairly poorly defined term), but it makes it clear that ML supercomputers are very different beasts from classic supercomputers. And also makes me wonder if/when the classic folks will try to make more codes work correctly with smaller precision (for example, in molecular dynamics).
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Pretty sure it's FP8, not singles. (Which for the H100 makes a 60x difference.)
as an ex-supercomputer nerd (where the fastest system in teh world finally reached over 1 exaflops of double precision), it seems awfully weird to call FP8 "flops". There's nothing truly wrong with it (since "flops" is a fairly poorly defined term), but it makes it clear that ML supercomputers are very different beasts from classic supercomputers. And also makes me wonder if/when the classic folks will try to make more codes work correctly with smaller precision (for example, in molecular dynamics).