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I don't think we'll be legally prohibited from buying it but there will be zero English docs (see Allwinner and such). Maybe if you're lucky you'll get an uncommented code dump with a forked years-old version of PyTorch.
Can't an LLM translate?
About time. NVIDIA needs some serious competition.
The CEO of NVIDIA was pretty clear: Nvidia's focus is now on selling Blackwell AI Factories. According to some napkin math, each of these Blackwell AI factories will have an annual power bill of roughly $8,000,000 USD and if you do a little apples to oranges comparison will outperform the computer that's currently #1 on the supercomputing top 500 (Frontier at Oak Ridge) by one to two orders of magnitude.
for comparison, over the past fifteen years, we've seen 3 orders of magnitude improvement in the supercomputing top 500. (from roadrunner in 2008 to frontier in 2024). Nvidia is going to do 1 to 2 orders of magnitude improvement instantaneously.
Nvidia's core market has shifted dramatically. There is no competition.
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You don’t need to manage NVLink. NVLink either talks native NVlink to itself when you are using NVlink switches either intra-server or intra-rack or; It can talk PCIe over NVlink when talking to a PCIe endpoint. Or you can run Infiniband or Ethernet on top of it and talk to w/e is on the other side. Gaudi isn’t that different remember Ethernet != TCP/IP.
So it works with Ethernet switches?
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AMD is doing several billion in ai processor sales already and the new chip is selling as fast as they can make them. At least with AMD, a customer can actually get them now as opposed to the nearly 1 year lead time from nVidia.
Now, if they could also do the performant, unified, software and driver part..
About time. NVIDIA needs some serious competition.
Did you watch the Nvidia 2024 GTC keynote[1]? The CEO of NVIDIA was pretty clear: Nvidia's focus is now on selling Blackwell AI Factories. According to some napkin math, each of these Blackwell AI factories will have an annual power bill of roughly $8,000,000 USD and if you do a little apples to oranges comparison will outperform the computer that's currently #1 on the supercomputing top 500 (Frontier at Oak Ridge) b…
About time. NVIDIA needs some serious competition.
pokes OpenCL's corpse with a stick C'mon, do something...
With the state of OpenCL it's frustrating. So much to be had, but so little improvement and support.
What are the row of green rectangles in the middles of the longe edges?
About time. NVIDIA needs some serious competition.
The only meaningful hardware competition, meaning lower prices, will come from Chinese designed, Chinese manufactured parts. This is still a long ways out. Is it inevitable? I think so. Before 2019 there wasn't an opportunity, now there is. For software, Chinese universities, Alibaba, Tencent and Bytedace are already releasing models, training code and in rare cases datasets that are competitive with private offering…
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pokes OpenCL's corpse with a stick C'mon, do something...
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2754 Wow and I thought that the latest generation of GPUs was better.
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Did you watch the Nvidia 2024 GTC keynote[1]? The CEO of NVIDIA was pretty clear: Nvidia's focus is now on selling Blackwell AI Factories. According to some napkin math, each of these Blackwell AI factories will have an annual power bill of roughly $8,000,000 USD and if you do a little apples to oranges comparison will outperform the computer that's currently #1 on the supercomputing top 500 (Frontier at Oak Ridge) b…
When moving into a market where there are no competitors one should be wary that this may be because there are no customers.