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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAn entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAn entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok; what application (which benefits society) requires data center level compute beyond physics simulations (which are better suited for quantum computers).
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. A state government needs to support 1/10th of its population actively using its services. Say that state has 10M people; you will want 10k cores for all state services. an 8P server has about 1536 cores and you will need about 7 of them. So it still takes a whole rack even with the COBOL programs and applications written in C and Assembly.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.