The AI era is pulling FP64 hardware away from scientific HPC

[RonShepard]

@kkifonidis

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

This quote is from 1995, when a supercomputer cpu executed at the rate of some 500 MFLOPS. Today’s chicken CPU executes at 30 GFLOPS per thread. History has answered that question.