Comments on: Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part Two https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Slim Jim https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215445 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:11:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215445 Who will be first to produce CPUs (and GPUs) supporting PCIe 6.0 + CXL 3.0 (eg. in 2024 vs 2025)?

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215314 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:31:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215314 In reply to Slim Albert.

Lego cephalopods with reconfigurable translucent CPO tentacles sounds about right. Then again, it seems that Google’s TPUs are not super for branching linear algebra, sparse memory access, and high-precision math ( https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/intro-to-tpu ). Therefore, the Legos will need to be rather beefy, like EPYC Zen Duplos I think! 8^p

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215264 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:05:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215264 That Roomba must need a GPS to mow them 10 acres! 8^b

]]> By: François Lechat https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215249 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:57:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215249 My question is: Is industry too feudal obsessed with moat?

Google said it “Missing The Moat With AI” in TNP May 4 2023. Nvidia has big Cuda moat but TNP October 12 2023 caution: “You can build a moat, but you can’t drink it”! I like AMD Dr. Su don’t believe in moats and prefer drawbridge to medieval confinement!

But maybe big moat make trillion dollar market cap easier shot for sAMMANTAs to buy small country or two?

]]> By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215243 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:55:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215243 Great second part of the myth-busting interview sequence! There’s probably a myth to be debunked about CoWoS as well, but I’m not 100% sure which, maybe something like:

Myth 11: CoWoS woes will set HPC/AI/ML developments back a whole decade, or more(?).

(P.S. my understanding, which could be wrong, is that CoWoS is mostly an issue for chips with HBM, yes?)

]]> By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/19/debunking-datacenter-compute-myths-part-two/#comment-215241 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:32:50 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143134#comment-215241 Quite an animated part 2, even while discussing restful APIs, and all leading to the MythBusters-style Grand Finale, a huge explosive deflagration (or not?)! (eh-eh-eh)

These Myths (6-10) are interesting because, as noted by both interviewee and interviewer, they may have held true in the past, at earlier time points in tech development. Much innovation was produced over the years to turn them into what are now myths (which is great!).

One thing about Myth 7 though is that we do, today, have one company that is doing something quite exceptional with an ultra-monolithic die: Cerebras (wafer-scale chippery). One wonders about the potential for this tech to be re-implemented in a Lego-style (to quote TPM) chiplet approach, distributed over several packages, while maintaining the same performance, and possibly moving into FP64 as well!

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