The problem at the moment is power. I mean a 2000GPU system consumes megawatts of power and cost millions of dollars a year to run and tens of millions of dollars to procure. I would say till it can be fitted into a single rack and run on a 63A 3-phase supply without expensive heat exchangers and water cooling looks (water cooled rear doors are OK) it is a novelty. My guess is I will be close to retirement before that happens at the earliest.

Fundamentally it would not take much effort to make the likes of slurm work well with GPU loads. The issue is the idiot users who have no history in shared user systems and expect to be able to treat them like their personal workstations.

Yes that is a solved problem for traditional compute workloads, that is my day job running an HPC system. For AI it is a freaking nightmare. The first problem is the researchers have no history in shared computing resources, so come bitching they cant install latest wacky framework using sudo I kid you not. They seem to think they can treat a shared multimillion-pound GPU cluster like their personal workstation. Secondly, existing job schedulers like slurm etc. are not great with GPUs. You can make it work but it is sub-optimal.

So basically the likes of Run:AI allow you to have the researchers bring whatever wacky container they are using and have that scheduled on a cluster, oh and provide a bunch of off the shelf containers for the most common frameworks people are using that are kept up to date.

Honestly, that was significant value, and the whole AI thing is utterly insane in the amount of money it requires. The procurement cost for a 2000 H100 GPU system is in the region of $80 million with a $10 million per year electricity bill. Oh and there is around at least a nine month lead time on delivery possibly a year. There is a reason NVIDIA has the valuation it has.

Really, Russia Today has been forced off UK television for repeated breaches of the rules. Though it might come as a shocker to an American but biased reporting on TV and Radio is illegal in the UK.

Let me introduce you to the IBM TS4500. You are looking at around $2 per camera for an entire years worth of footage. A single tape library could store a years footage from over 850,000 cameras. Tell me you don't know about long term enterprise storage without telling me don't know. Off the top of my head to have that replicated at two sites for good measure, all in less than $10 million including a couple PB of disk cache.

If you have an 8 way SXM box with H100s then they are *ALL* aircooled. Its fing crazy but Nvidia supply the SXM module and it comes with an integrated heatsink. I have had quotes from all the major vendors at the start of this year and it was surprise to us we assumed we would be able to get direct liquid cooled servers. You can for four way SXM but not eight way.

Military missiles already do this, including using terrain profile and inertial guidance. It is handy to have a GNSS, especially for the start coordinates but it is not necessary to achieve good precision.

The fact that it has to be "upgraded" to Rust 1.77 shows that they are busy hanging themselves already. That is the issue with all these fad languages is the constant maintenance cycle on existing code so you can continue to use it. Python being the worst of the worst in this regard.

Someone needs to write a tender for a sizable GPU system that mandates CUDA support to get AMD's attention.

That sounds complicated. The cheapest form of hydrogen is "white" or natural hydrogen.

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Turns out the stuff is in the ground just waiting to be released by drilling for it. It first turned up by accident in 1921 and till now the result has been to simply plug the wells and move on.

In the 1970's when I was staying with my grandparents one summer, Roger Moore who lived opposite had his house burgled. They arrived in removal vans and stripped the place. I remember it quite clearly, everyone thought he was moving.

Working on gas appliances became regulated in the UK as a result of the Ronan Point disaster.

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We don't produce steam but they are still called boilers.

In the UK lots of supermarkets are phasing out thick plastic bags now. Personally, I keep a thin ripstop nylon bag in my coat pocket at all times, that way I always have at least one bag on me. I do have a notion of a app my phone that detects I have just got out the car in a supermarket car park and gives me a verbal reminder to take my bags with me.

There are a few options for sshfs like functionality under Windows. Shame really that Microsoft doesn't add it directly to Windows. You now have an SSH client built into the OS, so being able to map a drive using SSH would be the obvious next step.
Not that I use Windows much but as a sysadmin being able to mount a filesystem arbitrarily on a remote server is a massive productivity boost.

GPFS, TSM. TS3500 and on occasion, AIX/pSeries to run it all. Having TSM run on AIX/pSeries to backup everything helps one sleep soundly at night knowing it is going to take a *very* determined hacker to get at my backups and even if they do being on tape it will take a long time to do anything destructive to them.