Putting The World’s Largest AI Supercomputer into Perspective

Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio

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Elon Musk has just announced that xAI has finally connected their Colossus cluster, a 100,000-install base NVIDIA H100 GPU accelerated computer.

The biggest AI computer the world has ever seen (and it’s not even close) boasts some of the most astonishing numbers one can fathom and helps us toy with the idea of how large the next generation of models will be.

And let me tell you, they are huge!

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AI workloads require an insane amount of computation for them to be viable. The reason is that they are huge digital files boasting billions of parameters occupying double or triple figures in GigaBytes and, in some cases, like frontier models, TeraBytes in size.

To make matters worse, due to their structure, these models are queried every single time they need to predict something, which, in text terms, means they are queried for every new word they predict.

Therefore, to prevent latency from becoming unbearable, we… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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