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Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

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Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

#31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m assuming this is visually just some racks in (probably) Azure data centers and is leased not owned.

That is also what I suspect. Otherwise where would they get two thousand H100s?

Maybe an AI startup that went under and the investors took the cluster?

Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

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lmao are they trolling with the naming https://www.cerebras.net/andromeda/

I don’t get it. Why would this be a troll?

An NVIDIA competitor creates a deep learning cluster, calls it Andromeda.

Later, these guys create an NVIDIA-based deep learning cluster and call it… Andromeda.

Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

#37
> Big enough to train llama 65B in ~10 days

Y'all could totally eat Meta's lunch and train an open LLM with all the innovations that have come since LLaMA's release. Other startups are trying, but they all seem bottlenecked by training time/resources.

This could be where the next Stable Diffusion 1.5 comes from.

Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be mostly heatsinks, right? If you switch to liquid cooling does your score change?

> That would be mostly heatsinks, right? If you switch to liquid cooling does your score change? You still need a radiator with liquid cooling. It just makes the setup more fragile. And lets you use a bigger cooler/fan.

If you count the radiator then the score must go up dramatically!

Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

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Looks like they've reserved a bunch of compute from Lambda Labs? Edit: Based off this tweet, looks very similar https://twitter.com/LambdaAPI/status/1668676838044868620

i mean if its just h100 specs then it cant help but look similar cant it

Re: Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

#40

Same guys behind https://aigrant.org , maybe it's mainly as a way to get dealflow?

And to support startups we invest in who need GPUs!

@nat would you be interested in presenting about this at The AI Conference in SF?

Your take on hardware-enabled investment would be interesting.

We also have folks like Hugging Face’s GPT Research Lead, Langchain and LlamaIndex founders, Cerebras’s CEO and many more speaking. It’s A builder-heavy audience.

https://aiconference.com

* this is my event

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