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Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers
- guwop 2y agohow is 1500 H100's considered "one of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers" ? i dont get how that adds up. meta got 150.000 H100's delivered in 2023 alone?
- helsinkiandrew 2y agoONE of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers - I think it would get on the first page of the (November) top 500 list: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2023/11/ https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2023/11/
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- yvely 2y agoTraining takes a lot more than using
- infecto 2y agoI don't understand these types of comments on a tech forum. To me its as if we had said "Why do we need anything faster than a 386 in the 1980s?".
- bilekas 2y ago"Why do we need 1GB of RAM, 512MB works fine already."
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- baq 2y agofunny that I don't have to even turn around from my desk to count more than that if I count everything with at least one processor in it...
- farialima 2y ago( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )
- kthartic 2y agoWhy do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)
- weebull 2y ago> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already > > Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already ...but there's a difference. Op isn't saying "why AI?" - why do we need supercars, cars are just fine? - why do we need megaphones, phones are just fine?
- kthartic 2y agoYes I was a little unfair with some of them
- throw_pm23 2y agoYou mean these as absurd rhetorical questions, but at least half of them are actually on the spot.
- smokel 2y ago> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there. Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.
- kthartic 2y agoHaha didn't know about this! Clearly we've regressed as a society
- throwaway11460 2y agoWhat? I still have to go to work. Obviously it doesn't work fine.
- sanitycheck 2y agoI just had a nice chat with Bing about this and Bing is adamant that it's because they are "essential for solving complex problems, advancing AI models, accelerating innovation, and providing competitive advantages in technology and research". And definitely not because anything with "AI" in the name is now virtually guaranteed to attract far more investment and government support than things without "AI" in the name. Bing was very clear about that.
- rapsey 2y agoNot for long since H100 are now a previous much slower generation.
- Rinzler89 2y agoStill, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.
- speedgoose 2y agoBut don't they already have the EuroHPC infrastructure?
- Rinzler89 2y agoI had no idea about that. But from the article it seems it's focused more for Danish domestic tech companies rather than EU.
- Rinzler89 2y agoJensen must be rubbing his hands in his leather jacket
- throwaway4good 2y agoDedicated to medical research. They also have a large investment in quantum computing.
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago"medical research"? Yes, that's it. In Terminator 2 " John Connor: You know what you're doing? The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy. Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right? The Terminator: Correct. "
- barkerja 2y agoRehoboam from Westworld is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "supercomputer" now. What a terrible last season the show got!