Posted on 02/22/2022 5:55:34 PM PST by algore
Microsoft has revealed it operates a planet-scale distributed scheduling service for AI workloads that it has modestly dubbed "Singularity".
Described in a pre-press paper [PDF] co-authored by 26 Microsoft employees, Singularity's aim is described as helping the software giant control costs by driving high utilization for deep learning workloads.
Singularity achieves that goal with what the paper describes as a "novel workload-aware scheduler that can transparently preempt and elastically scale deep learning workloads to drive high utilization without impacting their correctness or performance, across a global fleet of AI accelerators (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs)."
The paper spends more time on the scheduler than on Singularity itself, but does offer some figures to depict the system's architecture.
An analysis of Singularity's performance mentions a test run on Nvidia DGX-2 servers using a Xeon Platinum 8168 with two sockets of 20 cores each, eight V100 Model GPUs per server, 692GB of RAM, and networked over InfiniBand.
With hundreds of thousands of GPUs in the Singularity fleet, plus FPGAs and possibly other accelerators
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...
Good luck, it’s gonna be crowded.
I will make origami and barter for food...
Hey, look on the bright side - it could be worse.
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20 years from now that will be running in iPhone 27.
Is it the image of the beast?
I hate Bill Gates.
I would have gone for 1761 PS3 in the background just to piss them off.
"Earth 2020, 3/4 of it's households have a robot.
The AI supercomputer, Kronos, considers humans the biggest threat to Earth.
A century later, few humans are left.
Calia seeks the last human stronghold as does Kronos."
Ain’t Digital technology GREAT!
Like a door that was locked I opened.
Oh now I’ve paid that price ten fold over.
Knowledge- was it worth such torment
Oh to see the far side of shadow.
I’ll ask to be a beta tester and pop some bitcoins out ...
The Beast ...
I am convinced more everyday, the internet is the Beast.
A Beast is never described as a person. It is typically thought to describe a nation. Something with borders and a bit ambiguous at times. But, THE Beast, well it is something to behold and yet all knowing etc.
The more I learn of what they are creating behind the scenes, algorithms, facial recognition, vaccine passports, and the incredible AI. This that we use everyday to do millions of things and transactions, is The Beast.
I remember it well.
Despite the traumatic head injury.
Why?
His products have always been so reliable and of good quality...
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I won’t argue with you about that.
It’s not considered wise to bring up here, but I agree with the first 2/3 of Ted Kaczynski’s book. (Not the bombing people part) The internet pushes filth upon society. Tons of porn, social media, and assorted trash talk of the worst kind.
The internet has almost all the pertinent information on everything one could ever want to know, but what is it really used for? The majority of people can’t handle the freedom and information in a decent way. Most seem removed from God, nature, and decency/morals. Greatest technology ever, most obese ever, and probably least moral ever in modern society.
Bill Gates is no longer at Microsoft. Been gone for quite a long time now.
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