Posts by IgorS

Barking at the wrong tree

> This personal information flows from web and native apps on people's devices to app makers and their marketing partners, and then to data brokers who sell it on to others, and it can be had by Uncle Sam's agents without a warrant.

If the data is available to anyone offering money, then the users have already lost.

The fact that (US) national agencies pay for it, too, is only mildly annoying at this point.

FTC should make sure such data cannot be put for sale in the first place!

Low power is a differentiator

For mobile devices, low power is sorta obvious.

But even for desktops and datacenter, we are getting to a point where the power starts to be a real issue.

Apart from the electricity costs, all the noise created by the cooling solutions is just obnoxious.

The alternative is direct liquid cooling, with its own set of problems (and costs).

Here is where Qualcomm has a real chance.

NVIDIA has gone too much into the "high power" business lately, so they are likely vulnerable, too.

NVLink attacked NIC?

"The NVLink mesh is also only good for GPU-to-GPU communications"

I don't see why NVIDIA could not just add NVLink support to their NICs.

They own the whole stack, so it is within the realm of possibilities.

The larger problem I see is the partnership with other vendors, like Cray, that would have a hard time doing the same.

Nonsense article

Intel was clear that it was just postponing the ceremony, not the actual construction. If the so called journalists cannot parse the details, it is their problem, not Intel's.

As for sticking to the plan, and not actually delaying the construction start date:

That's how you distinguish a serious business from an exploitative one.

Intel would sure love the subsidies, but they seem to understand that they need the facility no matter what.

And this is good news for the government, as it is much more likely the (eventual) subsidies will actually be used for the stated purpose, and not just squandered in a minimal showcase.

ARM equivalent?

> Other architectures, such as Arm, have something similar

Anyone knows what the equivalent ARM mechanism is?

Would be amazing, if true.

Since most of the compute come from gaming hardware with very dismal fp64 FLOPS capacity, 470 fp64 PFLOPS would be more like 20 fp32 EFLOPS! (and most compute is likely not fp64)

I find that really hard to believe.

I could not find any concrete stats to back this up.

DNS problem only?

How can a DNS misconfiguration lead to this kind of problem?

Was the information on a public IP address? Were they relying on security-through-obscurity only?

Anyone knows if this affects the server-class V100s, too?

Not a single file namespace solution

I don't think IRODS share the namespace between zones.

So the picture above would not have a single, global namespace.