Posts by Vikingforties

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Re: Since when is AI coverage based on distance?

Since it started sucking in everyone's power from the surroundings like some Star Trek 4 V'Ger for Whales.

What did they call that thing anyway?

Re: Ahh...

Could I suggest a modification of your Farage scale?....

0.01 Farages is pretty sound but 1 Farage is mad.

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

"Harrods, a globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury,"

I'll bet it's more globally recognised for other things these days.

The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III

Re: “By mistake…?”

I know... and picking on such easy prey as the Torygraph. Shame on you El Reg, pick on someone your own competence next time ;-)

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

...And for their next trick

Prepare for GPS part of GNSS to be switched off. After all we're all freeloading on their sat signals.

Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you

Balderdash & Piffle!

"that lasers often bring the heat when used in applications like welding, engraving, and blowing up Alderaan"

Everyone knows it was a plasma weapon that vapourised Alderaan.

China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too

Re: Good for the whole world

"Europeans should really consider making our own processor design"

We are and it's not going quickly - SiPearl is supposed to sampling Rhea 1 this year.

Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment

Hmm

From one ultimate owner within a jurisdiction of honor and trust to another. I like the investment but let's see how this turns out.

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

You smell!

No! You smell!

No! You smell, with brass knobs on!

....

Seen it all before. I'll await the outcome with little interest.

On the 72 core minimum thing; Broadcom planning a 72 core chip any time soon?

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Waddaya mean!

"the adhesive joint may weaken over time" - the things hardly been out and it's dropping to bits.

Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit

Re: Here's a suggestion

... and hire some of those school leavers into small delivery companies and apprentice them into the DevOps, NOC, delivery, fixit, planning & admin jobs.

Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior

Easy...

All Data Centres to move to Iceland. Copious geothermal energy being renewed below, plenty of cold air to keep the NVIDIA deep fat fryers temperate and expanding land area for a good 100 million years or so. Maybe even some privacy.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Re: Mmmm, pi.....

Thanks, have a beer. Good for Raspberry Pi 1 buster.

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

EU Spreading it's bets?

Early articles from the likes of the Next Platform had EPI funded SiPearl producing the HPC oriented Arm Neoverse V core Rhea chip by 2022, to be followed by Chronos. It's been put back to release this year... maybe. All very well having lots of projects but somebody somewhere needs to tape out and ship something. Happy to be enlightened as I don't follow this area terribly closely.

Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players

Re: The CMAS and AWS largesse

That's a Private Eye story right there, that is.

If true about the CMA being in receipt of AWS largess, should they not have recused themselves from the process?

I think the average person on the Clapham Omnibus can see there's a racket going on here.

Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration

Assets

Their marketing first word salad IP would have been a saleable asset a few years back but, sadly, AI has degraded it's value recently.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Re: Aliens...

You've got a little list?

They will none of them be missed!

(Up to date memes, direct from the nineteenth century.)

Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI

Re: Geothermal anyone ???

No joke icon needed. James Lovelock was asking for exactly that so he could go off grid.

Re: There''s SMRs, and then there's SMRs

Talk to France about reactors going rusty.

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

Re: Trading pedigree?

Yes, he ended up with a "surprise" in a Gorilla suit.

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

Hmm, as cloud repatriation is now very much a thing since the big hyperscalers decided (like Broadcom) to milk customers who can't easily move*.

* I know hybrid / multi cloud / multi vendor strategy... but people don't do that enough to curb the pricing.

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

"We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."

That's it! Intel is painting a Bob Ross landscape in roadmap form.

Prosecutors confirm probe into SAP CTO amid allegations of sexual harassment

I think you're on fertile ground for puns and NSFW material just based off Muller Yohurt's advertising material. You can put your pekka away ;-)

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

Re: Cooling?

Slight correction, did you mean Teeside?

Your idea is worth extending - instead of bothering to have a free port so we can house dodgy goods, we can have a free harbour for dodgy data!

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

Re: Ironic

It's a bit reflective of a lot of the UK cloud / hosting industry. Most providers* here seem to think that lobbing a few VMWare instances and backup services to customers constitutes the cloud. Trying not to be down on my own country, but I spend way more time talking to and visiting providers and CSPs on the European mainland who tend to be doing things more customers want.

* thankfully, there are a few UK based companies that seem to be doing something interesting. Good luck to them.

Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended

Re: What are the astronauts doing?

Well it's an old station now. It probably needs a bit of a Shake & Vac to put the freshness back. Then all those jobs around the house you never get round to. Toothbrushing out the dust in all the crevasses for one.

Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space

Understatement there.

Forget the "Yikes!". I'd go for a "Gadzooks!!" after that situation.

Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS

Newspeak

Some corporate Newspeak at its finest there.... "To continue delivering the best possible customer experience".

I remember going for "New Start" at BT years ago.... it was their euphemism for the redundancy program. Thankfully, I qualified for it :-D

Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds

Yep, https://github.com/AmpereComputingAI/llama.cpp

UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship

Re: Really???

Their Caboose.

Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham

Re: Nice trip hazard

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Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle

Re: Lies, damned lies and ....

Added to that, the inefficiency of some languages and libs. It's a winder anything productive gets done.

Lies, damned lies and ....

"Servers typically have a lifecycle of three to five years, and technology improvements generally reduce the overall heat they produce."

I suppose that's a correct statement per sum, but the number of sums being done is going up way faster than the energy required to do them is going down. Similar can be said for the power required to transport around the answers to those sums.

Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030

Re: I don't wish to be picky, but...

Take a black light and then refuse to enter any taxi interiors that light up :)

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

Re: This quote summarizes it up perfectly:

Quote: Quite every European effort is just that...

"Every" is a strong word. Horizon (the EU one, not the UK Post Office debacle) for starters could be that odd thing - something useful that pretty much everyone wants.

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'

I wonder

If you could mount spinning drives in different orientations and get them to act as gyros. It'd kill two birds with one stone. The size of disk you'd need would give plenty of storage space on the plus side.

Almost sounds like a scheme Daedalus and Dread Co would work on.

Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart

I think I prefer Qarnot's approach. Small, modular boilers using water cooling. Probably a lot fewer forms to fill in when they get installed.

Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

Quote inversion

Should we invert the famous quote about Americans occasionally attributed to Churchill.....

"The UK Govt / NHS governance can always be relied upon to do the wrong thing, after investigating all the right possibilities."

Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump

"One point seventy three jigowatts!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

If Only ...

.. your old company was free of similar technical SNAFUs while on your watch Willie, but a lot of us know different. And then had to suffer the hassle of what passes for BA's refund "system".

@El Reg, do you have an icon for pot and kettle?

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

Electronic voting

Well, if there's any sense, this will put back electronic voting for at least a few years.

Japanese boffins slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers!

Are they forever?

As an ex geologist I must take issue with Shirley Bassey and inform the readership that Diamonds Are most certainly not Forever!

They evaporate under UV light and may only last a few billion years.

Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters

Re: Underground

Immerse servers in fatbergs! Genius way to go for single phase liquid cooling.

I always thought we could combine data centres and local chippies with the servers heating the deep fat friers.

Qarnot in France.

qarnot.com/

Not forgetting the administration of feedback forms checking that you've had a good experience whilst viewing your cat video.

Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud

Re: Keep up at the back

More data stores to go at with Arm builds:

Cassandra, CouchDB, CrateDB, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, KeyDB, Postgres, Redis, Vault, CockroachDB, Apache Hadoop components......

How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy

Re: What type of workload on what type of servers?

Exactly! Would they not find the answer they needed to find if different architectures were included?

Re: at risk (OK certainty) of repeating myself

Talk to Qarnot.com in France. They can help out in your basement :-)

Taiwan's titans bullish on challengers to x86 in the datacenter and beyond

SBCs yes, although Armbian and other efforts are trying to help with standardisation.

When it comes to Aarch64 servers things are different. SBSA Server Base System Architecture and a bunch of associated efforts mean that you can boot into a regular UEFI/BIOS like AMI Aptio V, Tianocore EDK2, use management like OpenBMC, iLO, MegaRac and address it using ipmi etc.