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 threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@digitalraven
Don’t worry. When ChatGPT goes broke there’ll be loads of cheap RAM as the insolvency firm tries to monetise the assets.
Mar 5 at 11:31amWeb
Show threadRichard BairwellMar 5
@KimSJ @digitalraven Alas, I've heard that whilst the memory chips themselves are the same the surface-mounted boards are different to conventional PCs so would need reflowing/desoldering and then manually resoldering to new boards (which are normally done by pick'n'place machines which require the chips to be on sheets). I suspect even if the AI boards are "sold" at 1/4 price the resulting sticks will still be higher priced than they were a few months ago.
Show threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Mar 8
@rbairwell
I wonder how much of the contracted RAM production has actually been soldered down so far?