Has AlphaFold spawned any significant progress in protein based nanomechanical computation systems? Everyone talks about quantum computing as a hazard for cryptography (or bitcoin), but a vat of proteins may be more relevant.
@id_aa_carmack
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Nvidia navigates China chip bans and performance architecture limits
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Nvidia seems to be deftly navigating around the China chip bans, but it is interesting to consider how a long term performance limit could influence architectures. Historically, vendors have always quoted performance numbers that were, uh, optimistic, because big numbers good. A
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Facial Recognition Technology Applied to Cattle Identification
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A rancher we know was curious if facial recognition could be used on… cows. A good example of how mature machine learning technologies will still take many years to permeate through the world.
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ML Progress Driven by Consensus on Truth
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A lot of the rapid progress in ML can be attributed to how much easier it is to agree on the truth than in many disciplines. Still room for improvement with open data and code requirements for papers, but pretty good today!
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PyTorch Update Resolves Profiling Issues but CUDA 12.3 Installation Fails
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The profiling problem eventually got mostly resolved by updating PyTorch, but I still get a failure to install nsight compute with the CUDA 12.3 package. Sigh. These are not the fun and rewarding parts of tech development.
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H100 Price Performance Improvement Expectations
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Hopefully it actually improves price performance, unlike H100
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V100 GPUs Market Prices and Datacenter Upgrade Dynamics
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I wonder what all the V100 GPUs are doing now. I had expected they would be dumped at fire sale prices because datacenters needed to clear space for A100/H100, but I guess people are holding on to them.
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GPU NVLink Configuration Systems: Current Availability and Types
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Are there any systems running today with the full 256 GPU NVLink configuration? Where? Traditional H100 or just Grace-Hopper?
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Solar Panel Efficiency and H100 GPU Power Consumption Analysis
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No, the amount of incident sunlight is around 1000 watts per square meter peak, but a solar panel will only get about 220 watts out of that. A fully loaded H100 system is 10 kW for 8 GPUs, not counting facility cooling. Probably budget 2kW / GPU, so 10,000 GPUs would be 20 MW, or
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AI Control Lobby Relies on Imaginary Harms Versus Real Statistics
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The gun control lobby can bring statistics to bear and say “Perhaps it is worth giving up some liberty in an attempt to limit these manifest harms.” You can disagree, but it is a reality based argument. In contrast, the AI control lobby holds up imaginary harms.