Top500 is weird for lots of reasons. It over-indexes on a few peculiar types of workloads and a few peculiar types of users (mostly gov).
Historically, those workloads and users were leading indicators of certain types of things. I don't think that's true anymore. In fact, I wonder if this is mostly a story of the government agencies not being able to compete with the private sector for NVIDIA gpus.
Historically, those workloads and users were leading indicators of certain types of things. I don't think that's true anymore. In fact, I wonder if this is mostly a story of the government agencies not being able to compete with the private sector for NVIDIA gpus.