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Comment #48406377
Ah right, yes- I think we're talking about the same thing- this driver just chooses to pretend to be a RoCE v2 device (instead of e.g MLX Nic in IB mode), but nothing would change …
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Comment #48404256
Thanks and yes real infiniband works better I agree, but it's still hundreds of dollars and days (at best!) of time. This gives you 90% of the benefits with a cable you probably al…
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Comment #48404187
Yeah, thunderbolt-net is IP on top and it does work as you say, with a few caveats: - On a single cable with two rails available, the thunderbolt-net grabs one and uses that. Witho…
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Comment #48403989
I actually didn't know there was more to InfiniBand than verbs (at least at this abstraction level, above PHY), so probably the answer is 'not much more'. The device imitates a RoC…
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Comment #48402551
A USB4 40Gbps cable consists of two 20G tx/rx pairs. The in-kernel networking implementation is single-stream and just uses one pair, and won't e.g. stripe across both pairs or acr…
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Comment #48400717
author here! it's not on top of USB4NET, no (RXE can already do that, it's compared in the benchmarks). it's built with the same tb primitives as the networking stack obviously, ju…
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Comment #44305046
open-webui has support for doing this- https://imgur.com/a/XUEVgCT
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Comment #43906938
No, you can tell it not to write these comments in every prompt and it'll still do it
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Comment #43761537
I don't think Threadripper platform is to blame that you bought a board with potentially the worst possible pcie lane routing. Latest generation has 88 usable lanes at minimum, mos…
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Comment #43258352
why make this- because people like music? I want to use it to make my own music, according to you, I can't because it deprives some /real/ musician of making money? what an insane …
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Comment #43162529
Interesting, thanks. Whilst ".2G Twice a week, for 6 months" doesn't strike me as a lot- could be someone who just goes clubbing twice a week- apparently enough to cause brain lesi…
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Comment #41487480
My comment wasn't implying that importance of wind in the UK energy mix (or lack of investment in nuclear) is specifically the reason for high costs but I agree that government pol…
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Comment #41487358
That's great- but UK has almost highest energy cost in Europe- almost €0.48/kWh. By comparison France (which has consistently invested in nuclear for the past half-century) has alm…
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Comment #41432075
yes, it does- lspci | grep ASP c2:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 52)
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Comment #41432053
If anyone wants to add remote access capability to machines without IPMI you can try with something like the $30 RISC-V NanoKVM[1][2]. It provides HDMI capture (and encoding), Ethe…
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Comment #40867439
I bought one of these boards a few weeks ago, it uses the mobile version of the CPU, great performance and low power usage. https://cwwk.net/products/cwwk-amd-7735hs-7840hs-8845hs-…
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Comment #40445302
Went down a rabbithole, found this prototype with bluetooth https://web.archive.org/web/20060409104320/http://cgi.ebay.c...
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Ask HN: Do you (or your product) pay for AI GPU compute?
.. either indirectly (via e.g OpenAI API) or directly (self-hosted model on AWS GPU instances, colocated, etc)? I'm building a product which will help with this and would be really…
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Comment #39629855
Great news- if you're a fan of Nassim Taleb: "I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut."
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Comment #39603623
AFAIK it's the high disk IO causing wear on the SSDs, since they specifically mention Solana nodes
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Comment #35522885
> Thermal sensors are a case in point. Today, one that costs about $1,000 and weighs as little as five sachets of sugar Seriously, we're using _sachets of sugar_ to convey weight? …
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Comment #33174564
Weird, I had one of these too and it crashed constantly- I would reach into my pocket and if the phone felt hot I'd know without looking that it had crashed and had already drained…
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Comment #32386942
I don't think it's fair to say it's exclusively used for money laundering, it surely can be used to obscure the origin of funds but I think 'money laundering' label requires that t…