The DPU scheme though, that is a pretty cynical “solution”… buy a server and then buy expensive PCIe AICs to offload the work from the server to the server’s AICs. I suppose Jen Sen had to find *some* justification for trying to acquire ARM. But a bunch of tech sites (STH!) really fell for it hard.

I think you just shake it by the shoulders and say, “Compose yourself.” And then it does.

Farming, ingesting, moving, and storing data through disaggregated heterogeneous subsystems, composed efficiently by flexible and performant tentacles, is quite the ExaCthulhu ticket these days (perfect for hubbing-and-spoking too).

I do wonder however, in an almost tongue-in-cheek Burning Man extremophile Triop kind-of way, of the extent to which an ansible puppet chef terraform salt might play a role in orchestrating the related compositions, or if an altogether different breed of spirits is to be summoned for this purpose (or none at all)?