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Comment on Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

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Forget LinPack and friends. Jack Dongarra is going to need to switch to the new metric for supercomputers—-kilograms of H100 GPUs—- about 3,300 give or take a few grams for this system.

That would be mostly heatsinks, right? If you switch to liquid cooling does your score change?

That would be mostly heatsinks, right? If you switch to liquid cooling does your score change?

You still need a radiator with liquid cooling. It just makes the setup more fragile. And lets you use a bigger cooler/fan.

If you count the radiator then the score must go up dramatically!

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