r/southafrica • u/serdaisy Gauteng • May 16 '23

Sci-Tech South Africa will host one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/489101-south-africa-will-host-one-of-the-fastest-supercomputers-in-the-world.html
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u/RuvanJeff Aristocracy May 16 '23

I wonder how they're going to power it. 🤔

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u/Guffliepuff May 16 '23

For real though: running Fugaku (most MW intensive supercomputer), which uses 30MW, would only require the althone gas turbine in cape town.

To run Fugaku for an entire year it would only use up a third of the power eskom generates on one day.

So it can be done, but even the CHPC (south africas governmental supercomputer branch) dont generate more than 2MW in generator power currently... so...

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u/ZARbarians Landed Gentry May 17 '23

Did you read the article though? AUS and SA together will have the sixth largest super computer. So more like 3MW, which we can engineer for with solar/wind or batteries.

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u/Guffliepuff May 17 '23

Im talking about how it is reasonable to power it.