Posts by Mr. A. N. Onymous 16 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2014
If you have lost "years of photos" that weren't backed up in another location, well, you fucked up. That's crazy to be so cavalier with your intellectual property and art.
I empathize, and I can imagine the feeling of loss, but this is a self inflicted wound.
Three locations, two different methods. That's a good start.
Perhaps another view: the interesting thing here is that IBM has accellerated three functions that are somewhere near the top of what data scientists do every day. According to the last Kaggle survey, 65ish percent of folks use linear regression. Now that's substantially faster, and much lower impact on a data center.
Volta GPUs are super fast, and the way IBM builds these systems gives you the ability to move data on and off of them at very high speed. The servers also give you coherent memory support across the GPUs and system memory; I don't know how much that helped here (and I should probably go find the paper on arxiv.org to see if they show their hand), but it seems like that solves a gorpy computing problem.
Nice to have options, even if you choose not to buy one or, as in this case, four.
Just about the only bright side to this announcement is IBM backing away from the horrible Roadmap 2015 plan. Over the past several years the cuts have been so deep inside the company that they have damaged IBM's ability to succeed. Terrible cycle. Hoping against all logic that this will yield a better long-term growth plan.
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