The computing power alone of all these gpus would bring a revolution in simulation software. I mean 0 AI/machine-learning, just being able to simulate much more things than we can.
Most industry-specific simulation software is REALLY crap, most from the 90s and 80s and barely evolved since then. Many stuck on single core CPUs.
It could be a nice side-effect of having all this “LLM hardware” built into everything, nice little throughput focused accelerators in everybody’s computers.
I think if I were starting grad school now and wanted some easy points, I’d be looking at mixed precision numerical algorithms. Either coming up with new ones, or applying them in the sciences.
Most industry-specific simulation software is REALLY crap, most from the 90s and 80s and barely evolved since then. Many stuck on single core CPUs.