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With Radeon Instinct already powering two of the fastest three supercomputers in the world (and soon to be three of the top-four), it's quite clear that CUDA is more or less inconsequential at the supercomputer-level.
Here's a hint...they don't. They want what does the job that they need done and CUDA clearly has nothing to do with these purposes, as we've seen by the part selection made over the past few years. If EPYC and Instinct do the job they need done better than the offerings from Intel and/or nVidia, they're going to use them. This is the US government we're talking about here, you know, the one with the unlimited budget (unless it comes to giving their citizens universal healthcare). If nVidia hardware was better (as you seem to be trying so hard to claim), then that's what they'd be using. Oh, except that they're not...
Sales are sales.
These supercomputers calculate extremely complex atomic and molecular interactions like protein folding and nuclear chain-reactions. Two of the top-three fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by EPYC and Radeon Instinct, those being Frontier (currently the fastest on Earth) and LUMI (3rd-place). When El Capitan comes online, the two fastest supercomputers in the world will be powered by EPYC and Radeon Instinct. CUDA is of no consequence at this level and it shows by the very presence of Frontier and LUMI in the #1 and #3 spots, respectively. The fastest supercomputer with nVidia hardware is Leonardo and it's in 4th-place. These supercomputers aren't used for running blender and the components are chosen by some of the top computer engineers in the world. They don't care what colour the box is when the parts arrive so nVidia doesn't have its "clueless noob" advantage like it does in the gaming spaces. These computers are used by engineers at a level that is far above what you would find in a university. These computers are used by engineers from agencies like NASA. Do you think that NASA engineers give a damn about a bunch of university professors using CUDA in their CGI courses?
Here's a hint...they don't. They want what does the job that they need done and CUDA clearly has nothing to do with these purposes, as we've seen by the part selection made over the past few years. If EPYC and Instinct do the job they need done better than the offerings from Intel and/or nVidia, they're going to use them. This is the US government we're talking about here, you know, the one with the unlimited budget (unless it comes to giving their citizens universal healthcare). If nVidia hardware was better (as you seem to be trying so hard to claim), then that's what they'd be using. Oh, except that they're not...
I don't know what to say to this because (other than what universities use being completely irrelevant) the very existence of the top-3 supercomputers, Frontier, Fugaku and LUMI proves your statement to be 100% false. None of these supercomputers use nVidia hardware for anything. The Kubaku is the odd one out because it uses Fujitsu-designed ARM8.2 cores and doesn't require separate GPU cores. The other two have been extremely successful in their roles with EPYC and Instinct for the USA and Finland. After their experience with Frontier, if there were any drawbacks to using Radeon Instinct GPUs, there's not a chance that the US government would be investing even more money into an even more expensive and powerful Cray like El Capitan. They can spend limitless amounts of money on whatever they want which means that if they chose Radeon Instinct, then it is either the best for the task or at the very least, nVidia would be no better.
What does that have to do with the M1200X being the fastest AMD product to reach $1,000,000,000? You must be a real fanboy to bring up things that have nothing to do with the article in your attempt to say "But, but, but, CUDAAAA!!!".
