• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Sure, but the scientists doing those kinds of workflows don’t have anywhere near the money to burn on GPUs. Even before they had all of their funding cut off for being to gay or brown or whatever crap the Nazis have come up with.

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      11 minutes ago

      Sure, but the scientists doing those kinds of workflows don’t have anywhere near the money to burn on GPUs

      I’m working in a lab that is purchasing a cluster with a price tag you wouldn’t believe even if I could share it, which I can’t. We are publicly funded. Scientists are buying this hardware, for this price, because the speed up we get is tremendous.

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      4 hours ago

      This is just a small part of the perpetual cycle of growth and contraction. Growth comes from breakthroughs and innovations. Contraction comes from mis-allocation of resources and the need to extract efficiency from the breakthrough and innovation.

      So now everything is booming and growing. This will slow down and if it becomes efficient enough it will remain useful and accessible. If not, it will be discarded and another breakthrough will take its place.