Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, May 31st, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the new fastest computer in the world sees the Crown return to the US. Will we not see

Sony's next-gen VR rig until next year? Ride hailing fares are reaching record

highs as the players attempt to pivot to profitability, a new ride-hailing

entret that lets you haggle on price, and a look at how

Paramount is trying to go it alone in the streaming wars.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. I always like to do these sort of headlines once or twice

a year when they pop up. An AMD powered frontier, which is a super computer based in the US, is now the world's fastest super computer.

Topping 1,102 pedaflops per second overtaking Japan's fugaku at 4 442 pedophlops per second.

That's a big jump, quoting Tom's hardware.

Frontier not only overtakes the previous leader Japan's

Fugaku, but it blows it out of the water. In fact, Frontier is faster than the next seven supercomputers on the list combined. Notably, while Frontier hit 1.1 ex-flaps during a sustained Linpack, FP64 benchmark.

The system delivers up to 1.69 exoflops in peak performance, but has headroom to hit 2 exoflops

after more tuning.

For reference, 1 exoflflaps after more tuning. For reference, one ex-of-flop equals one

quintillion floating-point operations per second. Frontier also now ranks as the

fastest AI system on the planet dishing out 6.88 exophlops of mixed precision performance in the

HPL AI benchmark. That equates to 68 million instructions per second for each of

the 86 billion neurons in the brain highlighting the sheer computational

horsepower. It appears this system will compete for the new AI leadership

position with newly announced AI-focused supercomputers powered by

NVIDIA's arm-based Grace CPU superchips.

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