Comments on: To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond! https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 23 May 2024 11:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Calamity Jim https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/#comment-224382 Wed, 15 May 2024 08:18:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144144#comment-224382 I reckon we’re living in the aftermath of Deng Xiaoping’s 10-gallon Stetson, that brought freer enterprise to the PRC, with an enthusiastic spirit for industrial competition. Upon reading the article I initially thought, “heh, we invented this Texas Hold’em market competition Poker game, and while China may have governmental exafloppers, we have a unique set of private-enterprise hyperscalers and cloud providers!”. But true enough, China grew Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and Baidu, that develop their own chips, and are broadly competitive with AWS, Azure, Alphabet, Meta, and others.

I reckon it’s a rodeo, where 8-second bull-dogging competes with Tik-Tok barrel rides, all coupled with roughstock 5-card draws, and no time to get comfortable, or there goes one’s lunch box expectations!

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