Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> schrieb:
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:39:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:10:47 -0600, John Savard wrote:
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One of the things that those supercomputers that _do_ include
GPUs are praised for is being energy-efficient.

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That I never heard before.  I heard it in relation to ARM CPUs,
yes, GPUs, no.

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Here's one example of an item about this:
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https://www.infoworld.com/article/2627720/
      gpus-boost-energy-efficiency-in-supercomputers.html

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Compared the late 1950s, was the total energy consumption by
computers higher or lower than today? :-)

Total energy consumption by computers in the 1950s was lower
than today by at least a factor of 10.  It wouldn't surprise
me to discover the energy consumption of just the servers in
Amazon Web Services datacenters exceeds the 1950s total, and
that's only AWS (reportedly more than 1.4 million servers).