Oracle Boasts Zettascale 'AI Supercomputer,' Just Don't Ask About Precision
The Register, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
Cluster of 131,072 Blackwell GPUs up for grabs starting H1 2025
Oracle says it's already taking orders on a 2.4 zettaFLOPS cluster with "three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer."
But let's get precise about precision: Oracle hasn't actually managed a 2,000x performance boost over the United States' top-ranked supercomputer - those are "AI zettaFLOPS" and the tiniest, sparsest ones Nvidia's chips can muster versus the standard 64-bit way of measuring super performance.