Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?
fullsquare@awful.systems 1 day agogpus as used for genai aren’t really suitable for normal loads like aerodynamic simulations, genai uses low precision data like fp8, fp4, blackwells and such are optimized for it so hard that you can’t really do anything else on this thing
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They’re still somewhat functional for those workloads, and they can even use those low-precision components to emulate high-precision using libraries like cublas, though obviously not as fast as hardware that could do it natively.
It’s not like they can’t do it at all. It’s just that Hopper was better at FP64 than Blackwell is but if Blackwell chips become effectively free due to an AI crash then you could likely still use them in that capacity.
fullsquare@awful.systems 1 day ago
Or you could use different hardware, maybe from competition, because result isn’t worth electricity it used