Tobias Mann

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Tobias MannOct 22, 2024
My latest for El Reg
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It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla? Opinion  This week, Intel and AMD set their decades-old rivalry aside to ensure x86 remains relevant amid growing adoption of competing architectures.… #theregister #IT https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/intel_amd_x86/

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Tobias MannJul 1, 2024

If you've ever been curious about #AI image gen, there's a good chance you've got everything you need to try it out for yourself.

Check out my beginner friendly guide (all four pages of it) over on The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/29/image_gen_guide/?td=rt-3a

A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111

A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS

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Show threadTobias MannApr 4, 2024
@glennklockwood @hpcprogrammer How long till they drop FP64 entirely?
Blackwell is worse in double precision matrix than Hopper, and doesn’t even list a vector fig. But hey the future of HPC is mixed precision right?
Tobias MannJan 15, 2024
It’s -3F outside. I guess it’s fine for some transcodes.
Show threadTobias MannJan 11, 2024
@dneary @fclc we’re looking into it. Stay tuned.
Show threadTobias MannJan 11, 2024

@adrianjhpc @fclc

That could be a lot of money. $1.6-$5.19 billion according to Google.

Tobias MannJan 11, 2024
FCLCJan 11, 2024

For the Floating Point nuts amongst us, BFloat16 and its invention* by google is being challenged in a patent dispute.

Ramifications could include sunsetting of Google TPUs, but also the use of Bfloat16 and Bfloat like types in other devices, including:
AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs,

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Qualcom, Samsung CPUs

General purpose AI accelerators (all of the above + AWS tranium and Inferentia, and dozens of other devices)

Article by @tobiaswrites here: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/10/google_tpu_patent_dispute/

Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge

Singular alleges AI accelerators built from ripped-off blueprints

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Tobias MannJan 9, 2024
HPC GuruJan 9, 2024

The fairytale continues in 2024

“With performance of 50 EF of FP64 and 8 ZF of AI training for large language models, the announced system has gained a lot of attention”

The keyword is announced

All that’s delivered is hot air

https://businesswire.com/news/home/20240109994678/en/Tachyum-Well-Positioned-for-an-Exceptional-2024

#HPC #AI

Tachyum Well Positioned for an Exceptional 2024

With volume production of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, scheduled for 2024, Tachyum® officials expect to build off the momentum it

Tobias MannJan 6, 2024
The RegisterJan 5, 2024

Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook SoC was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock! Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…
#theregister #IT
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Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!

The Register
Tobias MannJan 6, 2024
Jeff GeerlingJan 5, 2024
Reminder to all the scorned sysadmins: CentOS 7 EOL is June 30, 2024 — and after that CentOS will be dead and gone forever. RIP. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fastest-road-centos-linux-red-hat-enterprise-linux
Fastest road from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) will be reaching End of Maintenance (EOM). The good news is that these events won’t require a complete infrastructure overhaul. Tools are available to move from your current configuration to a place where you’ll have years of support.