Posts by village-id10t

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

Re: Pay to play?

Also, what if their product worked and fixed the problem? Why the hell does everyone in here just assume the worst? Small files meta data = muppet programmers. Does it even occur to people that meta data has purpose? Maybe there is a reason the files are there besides "everyone is a moron". Holy hell why am I in a comments section? I'm out of here.

few applications

"There are still many scientific computing challenges for which GPUs are completely irrelevant"

Name one. If I can sort through a giant dataset in a fraction of the time using my GPU that's not irrelevant.

"there are few actual useful applications of AI"

Pretty much every major company in the world disagrees with you on that.

The chat agents, and the search assist function of all search engines, which I'm sure are annoying for you, is not all there is to AI. The projects going on out in west Texas where government and private partnerships will be spending 26 trillion dollars (that was not a typo) in that area alone, they also disagree. AI gets us from point A to point B way, way faster just like cars on highways vs horses and the dusty trail. If youve ever used AI, trained models on GPUs, deployed them, you'd know exactly what im talking about. If you gave me 5 minutes I'd change your mind. It makes you rethink a lot. Dont get mad im not throwing shade at you. You can have an opinion "AI is a waste of money and resources" or you think its stupid and making us stupid, but it has incredible value. We are just scratching the surface. Hell, chatGPT3 was only developed to be a language model (talk to humans and generate content/answer questions. To be good at language. It started doing calculus and writing code on its own. No shit...We're like a 4 y/o behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. Honestly we need to pump the breaks and slow down. It may not be as sexy as sending a man to the moon on the largest rocket ever made, but in terms of scale and resources, this dwarfs the Apollo missions and the Manhattan projects combined. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. All the richest billionaires on earth are all doing the same thing, hyperscaler AI projects. Its unheard of and its weird. Everything is hush, hush but of course we all know what its all about. AGI, An intelligence on an order of trillions of times smarter than not only you or me but the collective intelligence of the earth. Whoever gets there first will write history from that point on. The reality is kinda wild. But if you think USA #1 is going to willingly take 2nd place, we're not. Just wait until we see hybrid computers that operate on photonics (light not electrons) and have quantum processing units. (When this baby hits 88mph...you're gonna see some shit) End of the day, some people find a paper clip on the ground, they throw it in the trash. Some people find a paper clip and pick locks with it, parallel some batteries together, make a fishing hook, make a tattoo gun, you name it.