El Capitan Supercomputer: AMD ZEN4 CPUs & Instinct GPUs offer 2 Exaflops of Compute

#5766056

Mesab67

2020-03-04 19:59

Damn that's impressive, Zen4 too O_O

#5766064

Brasky

2020-03-04 20:26

10x than the current supercomputer? Wow.

#5766068

anticupidon

2020-03-04 20:32

Someone eventually will ask if this computer is able to run smoothly a game involving high tech military forces and aliens in a Asian environment.;) 🙄

#5766074

tsunami231

2020-03-04 20:39

this could be skynet 😱

#5766086

misousa

2020-03-04 21:11

tsunami231:

this could be skynet 😱

I was thinking the same thing.

#5766087

tsunami231

2020-03-04 21:15

misousa:

I was thinking the same thing.

People laugh when I say that but it will happen sooner or later, and no amount "safe" guard from that happen will stop it.

#5766094

schmidtbag

2020-03-04 21:45

tsunami231:

People laugh when I say that but it will happen sooner or later, and no amount "safe" guard from that happen will stop it.

I don't laugh, I find it annoying. Skynet isn't happening. Ever. For those who disagree, you might as well prepare yourself with some garlic, wooden crosses, and silver bullets because vampires are just as likely to be real.

#5766097

Avalanche

2020-03-04 21:51

schmidtbag:

I don't laugh, I find it annoying. Skynet isn't happening. Ever. For those who disagree, you might as well prepare yourself with some garlic, wooden crosses, and silver bullets because vampires are just as likely to be real.

Sure. Multi billion dollar companies release buggy software all the time, but when it comes to defense and military software nobody would ever dare to release a buggy AI to meet a stupid deadline. Nope. That shit only happens in movies and books. Its not a question of if. Some day we'll have AI-enhanced defense software, then some decades later we'll have an AI-controlled defense software, and some time later we'll have one of the buggier, rushed-job AIs going rogue. It might not be USA's or China's, but some backwater country like North Korea who wants to become an world power and lacks the means to do so will implement something dangerous and unreliable.

#5766099

anticupidon

2020-03-04 21:56

Gentlemen, we can assume and argue endesly. Let's not forget what this thread is all about. Supercomputer with huge data computational power. Let's think about best uses in mankind's benefit.

#5766105

schmidtbag

2020-03-04 22:07

Avalanche:

Sure. Multi billion dollar companies release buggy software all the time, but when it comes to defense and military software nobody would ever dare to release a buggy AI to meet a stupid deadline. Nope. That crap only happens in movies and books. Its not a question of if. Some day we'll have AI-enhanced defense software, then some decades later we'll have an AI-controlled defense software, and some time later we'll have one of the buggier, rushed-job AIs going rogue. It might not be USA's or China's, but some backwater country like North Korea who wants to become an world power and lacks the means to do so will implement something dangerous and unreliable.

Yeah ok. When this supposed fatal error occurs, feel free to direct the insatiable bloodthirst of the T-1000 to my doorstep and tell it my name is John Connor. There is an astronomically gigantic list of very specific things that need to happen just "perfectly" in order for something like a robotic uprising to occur. If you want to live in this fantasy where nearly-immortal killer robots are going to randomly terrorize the streets of your home town, sorry but you need to get a better grip of reality.

#5766126

Kaotik

2020-03-04 23:06

anticupidon:

Gentlemen, we can assume and argue endesly. Let's not forget what this thread is all about. Supercomputer with huge data computational power. Let's think about best uses in mankind's benefit.

They'll use it for nuclear bombs. (Seriously though, it's main user is National Nuclear Security Administration which uses it to simulate nuclear weapons)

#5766137

JamesSneed

2020-03-05 00:03

schmidtbag:

Yeah ok. When this supposed fatal error occurs, feel free to direct the insatiable bloodthirst of the T-1000 to my doorstep and tell it my name is John Connor. There is an astronomically gigantic list of very specific things that need to happen just "perfectly" in order for something like a robotic uprising to occur. If you want to live in this fantasy where nearly-immortal killer robots are going to randomly terrorize the streets of your home town, sorry but you need to get a better grip of reality.

Really we just need to create a super intelligent AI the rest will could take care of itself. However we don't even have AI's that are as smart as insects so it's not something that will happen any time soon. Personally I think if we ever do get a super intelligent AI they likely would be happy to choose to live on another planet as ours isn't all that ideal for silicon life.

#5766139

JamesSneed

2020-03-05 00:07

Nvidia is getting shafted on the supercomputer front lately. It's really hard to compete with AMD having these HPC APU's with unified shared memory. When Zen4 or Zen5 lands I expect something like this in a desktop(this meaning a single APU with unified HBM memory).

#5766232

Stairmand

2020-03-05 10:06

Department of energy? Perhaps they are going to use it to calculate where all the electricity went.

#5766237

SpajdrEX

2020-03-05 10:30

tsunami231:

People laugh when I say that but it will happen sooner or later, and no amount "safe" guard from that happen will stop it.

Yes, it's coming guys https://i0.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Skynet.jpg

#5766264

386SX

2020-03-05 12:29

SpajdrEX:

Yes, it's coming guys https://i0.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Skynet.jpg

Yep!

El Capitan will support National Nuclear Security Administration requirements for its primary mission of ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile. The AMD based nodes will be optimized to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads that benefit NNSA missions.

What was the original purpose of Skynet again? To manage the nuclear arsenal, right? I dont care about the name, something like this will happen, and El Capitan is another step into this direction.

#5766312

DownwithEA

2020-03-05 16:26

SweenJM:

Lol, you gotta admit, it would run Earth Defense Force 5 pretty sweet.

I like your thinking friend:) We just need to get KevinEDF to this beast.

#5766325

schmidtbag

2020-03-05 17:30

JamesSneed:

Really we just need to create a super intelligent AI the rest will could take care of itself. However we don't even have AI's that are as smart as insects so it's not something that will happen any time soon. Personally I think if we ever do get a super intelligent AI they likely would be happy to choose to live on another planet as ours isn't all that ideal for silicon life.

That's exactly it: an AI that's actually intelligent would opt for the most efficient and reliable course of action, where killing all humans would be VERY low on the list of possibilities. If for some weird reason this AI had a sense of self-preservation (an inherently biological trait), it could just bask in the sunlight with a solar panel in the middle of Bir Tawil for eternity where nobody will bother it. Otherwise, it would likely just willingly format itself or just shut itself off.

#5766577

Silva

2020-03-06 12:57

The ideas shown in the fiction works have brought us, eventually, good technology: because some people dream, others make it happen. If there are people making viruses, I'm sure an evil AI could rise from human efforts too, don't need to be a rogue one. That said, we humans can't recreate a consciousness, an individual (yet). That requires biological traits, as well as the growing up from baby to adult to form a personality. Any AI being developed now would only work within a certain number of pre defined instructions. Taking an input, it would decide the best output. What we call AI isn't actually it, it's more of a "Logic Action Programmed Operations Relay", or LAPOR. Yes, I made that up just now.