As part of the pre-briefings ahead of the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week and then during the keynote address, the top brass at Google kept comparing a pod of “Ironwood” TPU v7p systems to the “El Capitan” supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And they kept doing it wrong, and it has annoyed us.
It is perfectly legitimate to make such a comparison for large-scale AI systems, even if in one case (El Capitan) the machine’s primary purpose is to run…
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