Comments on: How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/13/how-convenient-every-country-needs-ai-sovereignty/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:31:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/13/how-convenient-every-country-needs-ai-sovereignty/#comment-239817 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:35:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144988#comment-239817 Some interesting developments here … and questions! I wonder if this supercomputer is going to be “the country’s most powerful” in both HPC and AI (besting Fugaku), or just AI. MS’ Azure Eagle did pass Fugaku’s HPC perf with Xeons and H100s, and one could surely build a machine with twice the performance of Alps’ GH200s to get there as well (or 5x that of Venado), but is Softbank interested in HPC (beyond AI)?

AI-RAN is also quite puzzling, and Softbank sure has been developing that concept for some time ( https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/news/052/?adid=mp ) … it’s conceptually interesting ( https://ai-ran.org/ ), but its utility is not completely clear (to me at least) … maybe we have to wait and see the benefits and drawbacks of that novel tech(?).

And maybe Nvidia or Softbank will talk about it at SC24 … starting Sunday (yippee!)!

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