Damn, hope you become a better person

I’m honestly surprised Intel didn’t try to launch their GPUs with a console.

There’s no better environment to prove your hardware while devs optimize to it.

The whole Dx12 vs older APIs would have been a non issue & given them another year or two to work things out.

Also I think in hindsight, AMD spinning off global foundries was a really good move. Maybe at the time it was because AMD didn't have to money to keep and maintain their own fab, so they had to become a contract manufacturer. However in later years we would see that not having their own fab meant AMD could be agile about the design of their next gen PC and server chips. So long as TSMC or Samsung could make it, then AMD can design it. But Intel was forced to only make chip designs that can be made to a good yield in their own fabs.

Keep in mind that anything that appears to be "true perpetual motion" at first glance always has a catch that prevents it from being actual perpetual motion.

Part of that reason why Intel had so much more market share, at least in the late 90s and early 00s is that Intel was bribing companies like DELL to only use Intel processors. Most computers you went to buy in a store only had Intel processors and it's why they dominated the home computing space. While I try Not to fanboy and have used both Intel and AMD systems I am really glad for AMD.

Don’t tell r/pcmasterrace that

Thats a great point. thanks

Yeah I think it was

Yes, but amd builds the consoles exclusively which helped them stay afloat for sure.

It is super impressive that Intel is a much bigger company that until recently only did CPUs, and nVidia is a much bigger company that mostly does GPUs, while AMD does BOTH yet has survived all this time.

While I don’t know the costs for them. I would wager the students chose to use AWS not because it was cheaper but because registering/queueing for super computer time is a pain/can take a while.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/06/28/top500-ai-cloud-native/#:~:text=NVIDIA%20technologies%20power%20342%20systems,centers%20are%20increasingly%20adopting%20AI.

NVIDIA technologies power 342 systems on the TOP500 list released at the ISC High Performance event today, including 70 percent of all new systems and eight of the top 10. (June 28 2021)

Not a fanboy of either, just posted this for the sake of comparison.

For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/Yw7WAq_GZY8

1 in 4 homeless people are women!

If you want your mind blown you should look into quantum computers! They're insane! They can create time crystals, that's crystals that can change state without the need to add energy or loss of energy creating true perpetual motion! And with time crystals we might be able to create even faster quantum computers by using them as quantum memory.

And even though I have no idea what any of it means, I am excited because this is real life sci-fi stuff! There's a great mini-series called DEVS where they use a quantum computer and it's nuts they exists in real life.

And you might say "yeah yeah everyone has said there's new tech on the horizon that will change the world but it always takes way longer for anything close to be developed" but check this out: The IDEA of time crystals was thought up just 10 years ago, since then they have not just been proven to exist but we can create them and yeah deep dive into everything quantum computers are doing it's just speeding up exponentially every day!

The cloud is just someone else's computer

I’ve edited it

Nvidia on suicide watch

Factorio is a video game, did you really think I went out and built 3 reactors all by myself

also was the uncalled for insult really necessary?

Not at max settings but yeah

It says it right in the name

So the guy above a lying little shit or?

It’s easy to power when you’re oak ridge and have your own nuclear power plant.

Why else would i buy a telescope for?!??

I mean with the cloud you can have your computing power distributed over a larger geographic area, plus the hardware cost is lower and setting it up is relatively simple. I've heard stories from the physics department at UofT where students preferred to use AWS over other available options (supercomputers in Canada) to run their models and stuff.

Goes with the rest - precise simulations of nuclear material are often highly classified. Sometimes also things like “simulating the spread of a bio weapon attack, using AT&Ts cell tower data to get high precision info about population density across an entire city.”