Nearly 70% of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, as announced at the Supercomputing 20 conference this week, are powered by Nvidia, including eight of the top 10.
Among them was one named Selene that Nvidia built itself and that debuted at Number 5 on the semi-annual TOP500 list of the fastest machines. With top-end systems requiring 10,000 or more CPUs and GPUs, they are enormously expensive, so government or research institutions own the majority of them.
That makes Selene all the more rare. It was built by and is based at Nvidia’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters. (It’s widely believed there are many supercomputers in private industry that are not reported for competitive reasons.)
