Comments on: The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/05/the-1-billion-and-higher-ante-to-play-the-ai-game/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/05/the-1-billion-and-higher-ante-to-play-the-ai-game/#comment-210870 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:49:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142617#comment-210870 In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan.

… and you can solar-power a PetaFlopper today (O’Henri’s Xeon+H100 cranks 2.9 PF at 44 kW = 4 houses of photovoltaics)!

]]> By: EC https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/05/the-1-billion-and-higher-ante-to-play-the-ai-game/#comment-210869 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:47:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142617#comment-210869 You always have such an interesting write-up, thanks Mr Morgan. The math gets a little easier when one considers Nvidia likely bartered for equity . . . H100s are worth quite a bit more than their weight in gold I hear. I also wonder if Ms. Grace and/or her offspring make an appearance in the Inflection AI solution — I don’t think we’ve seen the full potential of the Hopper silicon realized yet.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/05/the-1-billion-and-higher-ante-to-play-the-ai-game/#comment-210843 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:55:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142617#comment-210843 In reply to ⟨φ|8^p|ψ⟩.

When you say it that way, it sounds like a deal…. And based on what the AI machinery costs, it is!

]]> By: ⟨φ|8^p|ψ⟩ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/05/the-1-billion-and-higher-ante-to-play-the-ai-game/#comment-210841 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:43:38 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142617#comment-210841 Nice article! A billion dollars is a high-entry price-point and it is quite impressive that it can be provided by VCs (very deep pockets I guess) when individual States (eg. UK, in the El-Reg piece about them possibly rejoining EU science efforts) might struggle to compete. On the other hand, United States (of America, and “almost” of Europe) seem to have budgets appropriate for this type of activity. Speaking of which: “Happy Independence Day” for the U.S. — the 1776 Revolution (against the Brits) was helped by Louis the XVI (of the Bourbon house in France), after whom Bourbon Whiskey is named as a tribute. Inspired by this, France had its own Revolution 13 years later (1789), and ipso-facto guillotined Louis and his Marie-Antoinette — this will be celebrated in a couple of days (July 14). It however took until 1871 (or 1875) for the French Republic to become a Democracy, which happened after the “Paris Commune” (Emperor Napolean was no democrat).

$500M for an ExaFlopper (at 20MW) looks like a great deal, scaling down to $500K for a PetaFlopper, that compares favorably to 2008’s Roadrunner that did a PF for $100M (at 2.4MW)! Outfits like Inflection could (theoretically) rent-out the equivalent of 572 simultaneous Roadrunners, to their clients … (wow!).

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