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UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia

Re: More ££s wasted instead of…

From university experience you can always appear to save money by reducing admin staff.

You just end up with professors doing a lot of general office paperwork

And postdocs spending a lot of time trying to learn how to sort out complex customs documentation for an imported part, cos there are no experienced office staff.

And people waiting around for weeks to get a part ordered because ordering is now outsourced to 8 layers of service provider

And expensive bits of kit standing idle because you got rid of the techs and so a PhD student from years ago who used 50% of it explained that to a student that used 50% of that function and explained to a student ....

But on paper we have cut the wasted admin "overhead" - while somehow paying $/£/€ to management consultants to say how efficient this is

Re: Computer say

Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.

Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”

“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a plan to win the next election?”

The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of single relay.

KERNEL PANIC

Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.

(Answer by Fredric Brown, 1954)

Re: Lucky they built it in Bristol then, otherwise it would be confusing

Because people kept assuming we were in Bristol, not Uxbridge!

Surprised they didn't rename it Brunel Uxbridge University in the hope of getting a few international students who didn't read closely

Lucky they built it in Bristol then, otherwise it would be confusing

Re: You can't fight in here, this is a Moore room

GHC scientists => Supercomputers

∴ Supercomputers => GHC scientists

Since we want to have fewer GHC scientists than China we must have fewer Supercomputers

Re: Rankings

But these supercomputers would be used by scientists ( who are Godless Heathen Commies) to try and invent Vaccines or to suggest the Earth isn't at the center of the universe and is >4000years old.

That's why China (also Godless Heathen Commies) are building them,

Gentlemen we MUST let a supercomputer gap develop !

UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities

Re: Hmm

We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the asylum centres

We shall preserve the pure white christian British race for ein tausend Jahre ..... ?

European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal

>Assume we shall get an update story in roughly a few years time telling us how over budget, a quarter implemented and not fit for purpose it is.

That's the good option - I'm expecting something more on the lines of the 9 Kings of men who accepted the gift of rings.....

The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy?

Re: Northern Powerhouse, levelling up, etc

>Bring back the Stuarts!

Bloody Normans, coming over here with their filthy foreign castles

Bring back Deira - the original Northern Powerhouse

>We need to accept that we get the governments that we deserve. We as a population are fickle, lazy and divided.

While Ireland is populated by a united (other than in a hatred of the British), wise, thoughtful population of political scientists who over the last 100 years have chosen governments with the aim of fostering an economic and political utopia ?

Re: Is the government actually learning some economic theory?

Of course Ricardo missed out on the bit where you stop anybody else selling you the bits where they have an advantage - because they're foreign that's an unfair advantage.

Re: pile it high, sell it cheap

We could just ban foreign companies form buying brilliant innovative British companies.

Of course this means that brilliant innovative British inventors know that if they start their company in Britain they have no chance of cashing out. But that's OK because the VCs also know this so will know not to invest in a British company.

Of course the brilliant innovative British inventor could just go somewhere else. But that's OK because somehow in politics headline "$$$ US company was founded by a British inventor who moved to US" is a good headline while "$$$$ British company sold to US company" is a bad headline

Re: 'semi' conductor strategy.

The government thinks it's arguing about whether you need a full time conductor on HS2

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

Re: Wait, what?

No it was the actor who was later in "Neighbours" in a Wallaby suit

Ironically all the other parts in neighbours were played by Wallabies in human makeup

Re: Maybe finally a use for "AI"?

That's companies are going to product placement rather than ads.

You can't skip James Bond drinking a Newcastle Brown

I've seen demos of a system which replaced products for each market, so Bond is drinking a Japanese beer in Japan. With better GPUs and DeepFake they can personalise this to your shopping profile. Bond can wander into the bar and ask for "a nice cup of Yorkshire tea, luv" and be seen sardonically dunking his biscuit.

Re: Wait, what?

Waiting for it to get expanded.

Opt out of ads for cars (climate change), fast food (health concerns), banks (I'm a anarcho-communist) etc etc

Then you end up with only the most inoffensive ads for Shackleton's Original High Seat Chair and whatever it was JR Hartley was trying to buy

Re: Wait, what?

Better still, block all ads and charge some sort of flat fee.

Then the broadcaster would have a steady source of income to develop innovative new programs (or at least a reboot of Skippy the bush Kangaroo) and wouldn't have to chase ratings or be beholden to advertisers.

I assume the politicians would love this since it kept the corrupting hand of big business out of the national media and the public would love it since they weren't being tracked.

Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

Re: What else do you expect

You pay $$$$$/year to attend Harvard.

They (claim to) only take the most brilliant and innovative students

But somehow anything you brilliantly invent while paying to be there - belongs to them ?

On which basis, presumably the 30% of European children who are (allegedly) conceived in an IKEA bed are a slave army for the Swedish Meatball Empire

Re: Threads

Sheffield hasn't improved much either

Ironically OneDrive is a far better name than SkyDrive - which sounds like an in-flight golf magazine

Threads

Couldn't Facebook also be confused with the 1984 movie in which Sheffield is radically urban redeveloped by a nuclear attack ?

Of course one was a disaster in which people are subjected to the most terrifying ordeal, and the other happened in Sheffield.

FAA is done with Starship's safety review, now it's over to the birds and turtles

Re: No doubt in my mind

Unless Boeing/Lockheed Martin took a senator for 'drinks' and 'convinced' him that the lesser spotted newt is a vital part of the American ecosystem

And he has a word with his colleague on the oversight committee

NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away

Re: Don't take away my chemtrails!

But they're being replaced by invisible stealth chemtrails which activate the secret 6G virus transmitter

You've not heard of 6G? That proves there's a cover up!

Intel dumps its silicon photonics bells and whistles into Jabil's lap

Re: Know how Intel could REALLY generate savings?

But it only generates savings once.

The trick is to exit the semiconductor segment every year, that way you can generate $100Bn in savings on an annual basis

$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors

Re: You can take dumb horses to water but can’t make them drink ITs Kool AIdDevelopments

Just a test to see if all replies to amfM1 goto /dev/null

Re: "some of the cash infusion could be wasted"

Essentially the whole point of government is to keep the cash flowing.

It doesn't really matter if it's drug dealers or paying people to design nukes - as long as you keep the money velocity up.

Sounds serious

Good job with have a congress working together in harmony to ensure the future good governance of the leader of the free world.

(America however, is fscked....)

Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices

Removing a Chinese messaging app from government devices ?

What next, removing Grindr from Air Traffic control systems or Pokemone Go from RCN submarines ?

Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program

I think you'll find that Microsoftlinux™ has always been a core part of Microsoft and anything Microsoft has always been a supporter of Microsoftlinux ™

(Anything you might think you remember about Balmer is fake news

Re: Does it really matter..

But don't they also punish disloyalty?

The guy that answered all the .Net questions on Stackoverflow had to hand in his badge when he got a job at Google.

Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic

Or just remove the seats = The infamous Chicken Tax

You can't get meth in France ?

Re: Still Filthy Diesels

Diesel engine in car < EV (assuming your power grid isn't all coal)

2 stroke diesel engine in ship > bunker oil

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

I didn't want to cause alarm and the vapours among the innocent readers of el'reg - but it is important to check your parent's file system regularly

Re: What a waste of time

The majority of party supporters worry about whatever the party is telling them to worry about today.

And they certainly don't live in the sort of 'estates' that have street corners

Re: Love Your Response....

They did, some campaign group sent emails filled with random numbers to the home secretary - but police explained that the law was only for use in serious cases such as checking if people lived in the right school catchment area

Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

s/of/off/ ($%^#$ing cell phone)

Re: Anorexic bloody loony in a loin cloth ..

One of those films you have fond memories of, but suspect would be a disappointment if you watched it again.

my comrade (Billy Connelly!) will not speak until he can say Cascara is free.

American: Is that a political posture or a speech impediment?

Re: Loneliest place

It does leave open the question, do the police have to prove they are encrypted files, or do you have to prove they aren't ?

I used to work at a physics project that spent years generating insane quantities of random numbers mathematically indistinguishable from encrypted data

Or that terrorist Gandhi, "one anorexic bloody loony in a loin cloth and we lost a whole sub-continent"

Re: Love Your Response....

>Ha!........innocent until proved guulty.......

But you are guilty of failing to hand over your passwords when asked

"Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows law enforcement to demand a suspect hand over the password to encrypted files (which they refer to as “key to protected material”), or to provide unencrypted copies of the material that agencies are after. If a suspect refuses to do this, it is considered an offence and, under section 53 of the same law, carries the possibility of up to two years imprisonment, and up to five years if the case is one of national security."

Re: Challenges spawn workarounds

That's the nice thing about the law. When circumvention is a crime, we're all criminals

So the next time the Met accidentally shoot somebody for treading on the cracks in the pavement or possession of an offensive wife - they can produce evidence of VPN use to show he was a child abuser/terrorist/drug smuggler.

Re: Ironically, HRH is just a pawn in this

> Something which would, in turn, have almost certainly resulted in a constitutional crisis.

Yes, but him cutting of the PM's head shouting "Now it's one-all, Mother-Fsckers" would probably have improved his public image

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

Re: Anybody remember Intel StrongARM?

Probably politics.

Adopting StrongARM threatened the x86 group's budget / executives bonuses. Given that it's Intel they probably have a VP for every individual instruction.

So the VP of SIMD has a chat with an investor/board member at the country club about concentrating on core business to enhance shareholder value.

Similarly when everyone else is going to TSMC, the VP of fabs has a word with a few friendly journalists about how the foolish CEO is abandoning Intel's heritage as the leader of America's semiconductor industry

Re: Server market could switch from x86_64 easily

In a way he's correct in saying that the competition in the low margin desktop market isn't a big threat.

He's already lost the vast and growing low power mobile market and is in the middle of losing the high value, high margin server market

Re: Seriously

Yes, so long as you put all the small print in the Press Release

Re: Seriously

I might have expected the CEO of a CPU company to have noticed ARM / Mobile / GPU / Fabless etc a decades ago and have been building up a plan

But they were probably busy leasing back 'the machine that goes ping' from the company they sold it to , so it comes out of a different budget

(And this guy was once an engineer and has been at Intel forever - so he has even less excuse than the round of parachuted in MBA types)

Our parent company (Cthullu International) only uses laptops for 1000s of mindless cubicle demons and salespeople.

All they do is on O365 / Teams. They just want thin, light, shiny and nice screens - they don't care about microcode complexity

Only engineers get desktops, Windows for CAD /or Linux for development.

Re: Strategy

I think this time Intel are facing a much more serious threat. They may have to add "Turbo", "MAX" or "Pro" to the name