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Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)

You mean these as absurd rhetorical questions, but at least half of them are actually on the spot.

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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funny that I don't have to even turn around from my desk to count more than that if I count everything with at least one processor in it...

( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Still, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.

But don't they already have the EuroHPC infrastructure?

I had no idea about that. But from the article it seems it's focused more for Danish domestic tech companies rather than EU.

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)

> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already

It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there.

Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)

> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there. Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.

Haha didn't know about this! Clearly we've regressed as a society

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)

> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already > > Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already ...but there's a difference. Op isn't saying "why AI?" - why do we need supercars, cars are just fine? - why do we need megaphones, phones are just fine?

Yes I was a little unfair with some of them

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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how is 1500 H100's considered "one of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers" ? i dont get how that adds up. meta got 150.000 H100's delivered in 2023 alone?

ONE of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers - I think it would get on the first page of the (November) top 500 list: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2023/11/
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