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Unlike most AI training clusters, xAI's Colossus with its 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs doesn't use InfiniBand. Instead, the massive system, which Nvidia bills as the "world's largest AI supercomputer," was built using the GPU giant's Spectrum-X Ethernet fabric. Colossus was built to train xAI's Grok series of large language …

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  1. pc-fluesterer.info
    Facepalm

    Seriously - they did label that thing "Colossus"?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Seriously - they did label that thing "Colossus"?

      Not to mention that the Cybertruck looks a bit like the armored marine carrier in 'Aliens'. Nothing is really new any more.

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      1. druck Silver badge
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        Re: Seriously - they did label that thing "Colossus"?

        It looks nothing like it.

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      3. MonocleRB
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        Re: Seriously - they did label that thing "Colossus"?

        that APC was actually a well-disguised 747 pushback tug

        always neat to see how practical effects were done before CGI :)

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