Everyday CyborgMar 3

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

Show threadScott Johnson / FutureFarmerMar 3
@digitalraven That's a 330% increase. That's way, way, way beyond anything I've seen which makes me wonder if this particular vendor is price gouging. Out of curiosity, have you shopped around at all?
Show threadMichael T BabcockMar 4
@fuzzygroup @digitalraven this is not one vendor. Everything in RAM and solid state storage is basically sold out.
Show threadRaymond RussellMar 5
@mikebabcock @fuzzygroup @digitalraven
I was trying to explain what was happening to my old dad who has little interest in IT. He's a car guy so the best analogy I could come up with was to ask him imagine one the big car companies only producing vehicles to sell for motor sport and some others pre-selling a chunk their production to motor sport companies.
Show threadMark Mason
@raymierussell @mikebabcock @fuzzygroup @digitalraven how about : making huge sculptures out of car tyres becomes a fashion fad and billionaires bought up all the world’s tyre production for the next year in order to build bigger and more ridiculous giant car tyre sculptures.
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Show threadMichael T BabcockMar 5
@markmason @raymierussell @fuzzygroup @digitalraven with loans from the car tyre manufacturers.
Show threadMark MasonMar 5
@mikebabcock @raymierussell @fuzzygroup @digitalraven these giant tyre sculptures are huge, ugly and dangerous but the billionaires keep telling everyone that they’re the next big thing.