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This Is What Makes Nvidia's AI Supercomputer Different -- And It's Huge
Source: Quora



What’s different about the Nvidia AI supercomputer from other computers? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

Answer by Stan Hanks, CTO of Columbia Ventures Corp, on Quora:

AI is a funny thing. Its definition has shifted over time, and while the Turing test is largely seen as an appropriate litmus test, how you’d conduct that might vary.
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In the mid-to-late 1980s, there was a fad of building supercomputer-type capability out of arrays of digital signal processor chips. Theory was, these chips are super-optimized for certain types of math operations, so if you can build and feed a pipeline of those operations to the chips, you can get done a lot faster.

It worked in theory, but not so much in practice. A lot of that was memory and I/O speeds, a lot of it was that there just weren’t a lot of problems that decomposed into stuff you could kill with DSPs.


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