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justthetopyesterday at 3:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

For high performance work, gpus have replaced cpus a long time ago.


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goodmythicalyesterday at 4:17 PM

Not for all definitions of HPC, though.

No one's doing database management on GPUs. No one's scraping data on GPUs. Can't run VMs on GPUs. Can't run web servers on GPU...

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kergonathyesterday at 7:32 PM

There is plenty of "high performance work" that still requires CPUs.