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God speed, OCI is a pile of garbage. Once had them delete every single one of our production servers in the middle of the work day (in the hundreds of instances) due to an uncaught billing error. Triage took over 3 three days and there was a significant amount of lost customer data and financial impact. I wouldn't recommend OCI if they were the last cloud provider on earth.
were their billing reminders going to your spam folder or something?
Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .
It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
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I think it is because they are significantly cheaper than the alternatives.
Oracle? Oracle is the most expensive at everything. There were consultants specializing in optimizing Oracle bills way before they existed for AWS.
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I think it is because they are significantly cheaper than the alternatives.
Oracle? Oracle is the most expensive at everything. There were consultants specializing in optimizing Oracle bills way before they existed for AWS.
On their conference call tonight, Larry Ellison indicated Oracle will be building a dedicated data center for OpenAI to use for training, with 1 GW of power, and its own power plant and DLC. Stocked with newest NVIDIA chips.
Why would OpenAI not build their own data center?
God speed, OCI is a pile of garbage. Once had them delete every single one of our production servers in the middle of the work day (in the hundreds of instances) due to an uncaught billing error. Triage took over 3 three days and there was a significant amount of lost customer data and financial impact. I wouldn't recommend OCI if they were the last cloud provider on earth.
> Triage took over 3 three days were their billing reminders going to your spam folder or something?
Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .
I've run large GPU clusters on OCI, quite happily. The hardware and interconnects are very good - NVIDIA has a good relationship with them because they are one of the clouds not making their own silicon. GPU clusters are Oracle's path to breaking into top tier of the clouds and IMO they do it well. It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
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I've run large GPU clusters on OCI, quite happily. The hardware and interconnects are very good - NVIDIA has a good relationship with them because they are one of the clouds not making their own silicon. GPU clusters are Oracle's path to breaking into top tier of the clouds and IMO they do it well. It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
Open Container Initiative?