XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics, alt.economy   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 23:38:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > On 05/11/2024 20:31, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >> On the other hand, I recently re-worked a summary report program to   
   >> build the entire table in memory and spew it out after all input files   
   >> had been read, because I realized that these days, given the finite   
   >> volume of data I'm working with, I effectively _do_  have unlimited   
   >> memory.   
   >   
   > I have a friend who does maths research, involving operations on   
   > gigantic matrices.   
   > His original code, some of which is assembler to access some obscure   
   > INTEL instructions to do with vector maths, was designed to use 128GB.   
   > On someone else's extremely expensive computer in a far away land.   
   > That is no longer an option, and he spent last week rewriting it to suit   
   > the biggest motherboard he can easily obtain.   
   >   
   > Typically a run takes several months. The power usage on the computer is   
   > about 500W.   
   >   
   > So people can still find ways to push the limits of computers.   
      
   AI is great for that. You know you're in trouble when companies are trying   
   to buy nuclear plants to keep the lights in in the computing centers.   
      
   It doesn't get as much mention yet but all that energy eventually becomes   
   heat. Is the answer something like the Seabrook nuke where you can use the   
   Atlantic to keep the processors cool? When they were building Seabrook one   
   of the spins was that the lobsters would love their cozy new homes.   
      
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