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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • I apologize for not providing a link. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix) I am not quickly finding specs.

    These were SGI Altix systems before HP bought SGI. Tightly integrated clusters such that they operated as a single NUMA space. They are/were often used to host databases with massive shared memory.

    The smaller systems had lower numbers, and older had numerically lower numbers. A UV 1000 wad two models previous to the UV 3000. The UV 100 was same generation as 1000, but smaller.

    If I recall correctly, the UV 100 had 3 TiB RAM. These are very old now, and only an example. The UV 3000 had way more RAM and CPUs.

    A modern single non-UV server maxed out can hit over 1 TiB (I have not spected one in a while). Expect the single server to cost over $20K, anything less means one is in the wrong section of the store.

    Edit: clarifying a point

    Edit2: Just checked and a single server can hit 3 TiB RAM with 128 Cores for around $53K. Put that $53K in comparison with employee time for any other solution.










  • Fuck. Copilot is going to add ads to everything.

    Videos, links, random paragraphs. Everything written by a llm will feature 3rd party ads. Taking a page from malware developers, there will be innocuous libraries added that will later morph.

    Eventually, we will stop writing software as llms will be all software. Serving ads. Serving you to advertisers.

    “Hey watch, what time is it?”

    “Time for a sugar snack. Just go to the counter, it is already paid for (by you).”