vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoElon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down146
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUswww.tomshardware.comvegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareTodd BonzalezlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·6 months agoHe’s calling it a gigafactory? He already has a gigafactory, and it’s actually a factory. Just call it a datacenter, because that’s what you’re building.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·6 months agoIt’s also funny to use “giga” in the marketing when everyone else is dealing with petabytes
minus-squareMiltownClowns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·6 months agoprocessing measured in teraflops. data measued in petabytes. coolness measured in gigachads.
minus-squareTodd BonzalezlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoTeraFLOPs? We’re already up to ExaFLOPs! https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 months agoCalling it a pedofactory fits his personality better.
minus-squareBonehead@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoYeah, but “petafactory” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
He’s calling it a gigafactory? He already has a gigafactory, and it’s actually a factory.
Just call it a datacenter, because that’s what you’re building.
It’s also funny to use “giga” in the marketing when everyone else is dealing with petabytes
processing measured in teraflops. data measued in petabytes. coolness measured in gigachads.
TeraFLOPs? We’re already up to ExaFLOPs!
https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/
Calling it a pedofactory fits his personality better.
Yeah, but “petafactory” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Gigacenter?