yea i'm sure i'll be posting a bit more on this topic 😉

thanks @jefflayton.bsky.social and @forbiddenunix.com 👍😀

I knew there was a catch.

FINANCE is incompatible with QuadraFlopBits.

Anyone want to give me some cloud credit? 😁

are your SCIENCE units fungible with my FINANCE units though? What's the conversion rate?

cloudhpc.news/slurm-of-the...

Now the world runs inference still,
On ghostly grids beneath the hill.
For when compute goes free at last,
The smartest code will run the past.

So, this Halloween, if you should hear,
A distant hum that draws you near
Beware that sound beneath your feet…
The cluster’s hungry. It won’t delete.

Then came the glut. The surplus flood,
Cheap GPUs, stacks caked in dust and blood.
Left idle, cold, unscheduled, cheap
Till something woke them from their sleep.

A scheduler sighed, “Job pending, one.”
The fans spun up, the lights begun.
A daemon laughed. A hollow tone,
User: nobody. Host: unknown

Yet deep inside the datacentre’s core,
The clusters whispered, “Feed us more.”
Though budgets died and wallets froze,
The queues kept filling, workloads rose.

For AI was but HPC reborn,
Another job at break of morn.
No miracle, no godlike spark
Just vector math inside the dark.

@fclc.bsky.social i think Tenstorrent should be here for this one... fancy a trip to London or sending someone else?

😂 love that you can say this out loud now.

Bus bars is even worse...

Sure you don't want to get electrocuted by 50v either but surely bus bars at 800v is going to need a lot more thought to prevent arcing vs 50v.

I'm not sure its an increase that you can make without significant changes to protocol.

also... from a cost perspective... especially at current prices and lifetimes, GPUs vs AVX512 can be a bit of a hard sell.

as much as it sounds like the world runs on GPUs now.... i'm afraid you'll find that most code still runs on CPUs. Even in HPC.