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That’s sadly normal post ISC 😂 still at least you got the flight 👍
June 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
At least you missed the queues
June 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sure we can fine a badge v2 and get them produced…
June 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I’ll take some for free if people are struggling to give them away for free.
June 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So James’ cats are posting as HPCGuru?

On a side note any badges going this year?
June 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
But who in any company’s marketing team cares? State something… techies pull it apart but many leaders but into the hype and move their business to utilise the new new shiny
April 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As much as you like as long as you blend it and pass it through a sieve?
March 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
You can and some will, but there are many companies out there selling GPU that can’t buy up nukes. It’s going to be an interesting time to see what the split is between those who go big and those have limits…
March 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Eventually you run out of suitable customers and number of units you can sell reduces. At this point prices per unit go up/R&D budgets for these go down. Deepseek appears to show you can do more with less.
March 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
150-250kW per rack is ok, 400kW cray racks are larger, so it’s a similar amount of power per space. It will be interesting to see how much space these 600kW racks take up, but that’s a lot of juice. Allowing a small amount of overhead and to run 1000 racks is a nuclear power station.
March 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Alternative theory… the 600kW per rack doesn’t get traction as only a tiny number of companies can get that much power and people instead look at increasing efficiency of models or move to specialist reduced function chips with only the essential parts at play?
March 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Think they might have missed a letter:

m.imdb.com/title/tt0062...
Carry on Up the Khyber (1968) ⭐ 6.8 | Adventure, Comedy
1h 28m | Not Rated
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March 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’m pretty certain some of the European cars coolants contain PG rather than EG. I had a bottle of one on the shelf until I went WV. The main reason being it’s lower toxicity vs EG.

I’m more sick of some of the hype coming out of certain groups over the “new invention “
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No air, no food, nothing for growth to survive on.
March 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
PG25, as in propylene glycol 25% solution in water… Also known as antifreeze which has been used in engines for years?

That’s going to be interesting to use in some locations. I’ve been involved with systems where glycol wasn’t permitted at all. Distilled water was used in one along with air vents
March 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Next question , where’s that power coming from as a large modern nuclear power station has a nameplate capacity of say 3200MW, from two units so 1600 each. Pretty certain they don’t run at nameplate 24/7 either. TMI1 appears to be just 800MW for example
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Funny enough I had some people taking the piss when I specified 250kW racks and to should leave space and capacity to grow 50%. Looks like I under egged it 😂
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It feels so like the .com hype at the time. Investors are pouring money in to anyone with an AI idea. The GPU providers are quite reasonably selling all they can to these people. I’d be amazed if we don’t hit the point where some of the good will survive, some won’t and many of the rest won’t.
March 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
They should look at the cost of power elsewhere. 40p per KWh is about £2million per rack per year in power costs before losses/overheads.

I said to glen the profit claims would mean just seems untenable unless there are customers with billions to burn.
March 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
You mean the underpants gnomes have secretly taken over at a certain company and are holding Jensen captive? 😮
March 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Kerching kerching kerching…

What was the cost per unit of power and where are the unlimited customer funds to pay the $2mil x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 a year for 3 years?
March 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
600kW per rack is mad… but if as you say it’s 3 “racks” of space then you’re back towards something that can be done. 600kW in an 800x1200 would be “fun”
March 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Haha… 0-student, 18-retirement age, retirement age to exit(0)… although the exist code is up for debate…
March 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
You know what you can do with those buckets 😛
March 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM