Careful what you ask for
Google today characterized the move as "government overreach," says the company that stands firmly behind the party of big government.
Posts by chip66
7 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2023
Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS
Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that
Friday 2nd August 2024 12:53 GMT
Re: Solaris boot environments?
You beat me to the Solaris boot environment comment. Amazingly, we're approaching two decades, and this concept is still not mainstream.
ZFSBootMenu finally brings boot environments to Linux. I use it for Rocky 9 installations on bare metal. Gone are the days of broken kernel updates forcing tedious repairs and long downtime. Each kernel or ZFS update is tested on a VM before rolling it out to the bare.
Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds
Friday 2nd August 2024 12:41 GMT
What doesn't get the public attention as it should is Nvidia's business practices with data center products. T
If you want to buy Nvidia GPUs such as the H100, you must build clusters to their specifications, which means NDR rail InfiniBand for GPU communication and non-blocking HDR InfiniBand storage network. Deviate at all, and you will move to the end of the line or not even be allowed to purchase anything.
At least 10 percent of the GPUs will be in a failed state at any given time. If you can even get RMAs accepted, it will take about six months to ship them.
The next-generation data center GPU is being advertised as 60% faster at double the price of the H100 and will require data centers to be reworked for water cooling in the racks. As usual, the H100 will end production to force the next generation.
This is why the AI market is consolidating to only the big players really fast. Unless you have billions to spend, you are not operating on large GPU clusters.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
