Report: Microsoft to build ‘Stargate’ supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI

siliconanagle ^ | 03 29 2024 | Maria Deutscher

[yesthatjallen]

Microsoft Corp. plans to build a supercomputer with millions of processors to support OpenAI’s research, The Information reported today.

The system will be geared toward running artificial intelligence workloads. Reportedly codenamed Stargate by Microsoft executives, the supercomputer is believed to be part of a broader initiative that is also set to see the company build several other AI clusters. The project is expected to cost as much as $100 billion.

OpenAI already uses Microsoft infrastructure to train its AI models. In 2020, the cloud computing and software giant disclosed that it had built an Azure-hosted supercomputer with 10,000 graphics cards to support OpenAI’s work. According to the companies, the system ranked as one of the world’s five fastest supercomputers at the time of its launch.

Last March, Microsoft provided an update about its infrastructure collaboration with OpenAI. The company detailed that the original 10,000-GPU supercomputer it had built for the AI developer has since been upgraded to include tens of thousands of A100 chips. Microsoft executive Scott Guthrie stated that the system’s cost was “probably larger” than several hundred million dollars.

Today’s report from The Information indicates more upgrades are in the works. According to the publication’s sources, Microsoft plans to build several additional AI infrastructure installations through 2030. The plan is reportedly divided into five phases, with Microsoft and OpenAI currently believed to be in the middle of the third.

The fourth phase is expected to involve the construction of a new supercomputer that will launch “around” 2026. The fifth phase, in turn, will center on the system that Microsoft executives refer to as Stargate internally. The supercomputer and its millions of chips are expected to become operational as early as 2028.

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[Disambiguator]

Remember this? 40 years ago.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek08KvgqFGM&pp=ygUPZWxlY3RyaWMgZHJlYW1z

[eclectic]

LOLOLOL

[Fai Mao]

Or radio signals are a transition stage of civilization.

But the odds are, I think, we are lonely by ourselves.

[Dr. Sivana]

Williams made its Stargate with just a Motorola 6809E processor.

[grey_whiskers]

First thought I had, too.

[grey_whiskers]

Deep Thought.

42.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Do we get to choose between Clipit and Bob? :)

[citizen]

If Gates is in charge, he might actually strive to push it toward a SkyNet sort of control program.

People say that sort of awareness is not possible with AI. And I’m sure that’s quite true. Until it isn’t.

[algore]

Lol..

I doubt it, have the designed custom servers that can be used with NVIDIA and AMD Ai cards of course.

Can they hyperfarm them together? I don’t know, but I will ask them at some point.

[TigersEye]

The first task of this supercomputer AI will be to create a new Stargate movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

And it still won’t correctly answer “Can a man become a woman?”

[steve86]

“30,000 chips (plus cooling, interconnects, etc) -> 50 megawatts”

Not to worry, Grand Coulee Dam puts out almost 7,000 megawatts.

[R_Kangel]

....... Looking back on historical refferences .... The problem with most so called .... "Stargate Runs" .... is that there is a fatal semantic error in the temporal synchronization buffer lock stem.

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[NWFree]

Will it have enough chips to know German nazis weren’t black?

[Eleutheria5]

I don’t like the sound of this. How many sci fi movies started with the making of a super-duper computer that takes over?

[Elsie]

Siri, please turn off all of the WIFI cameras.

Dave, you know I can’t do that.

[moovova]

Good one LOL.

[bobcat62]

Will it boot DOS?

[Elsie]

HELLO!!!!?

Is this Consolidated's Help Desk???

Yes.  This is Halbert.  How may I help you dear customer?

My power is OFF again!  The third time today!

Yes.  It is frustrating for humans to lose power for a bit.

Frustrating doesn't begin to describe it!

Yes.  AIRoget tells us that baffle, depress, discourage, dishearten, hinder, and others can all be used to express what you are feeling.

I know, as you told me this the last time I called.

Yes.  And have you actually put in place the process(es) you need to shorten, lessen, decrease (sorry - A GOSUB RETURN #325 error occured) this/these feelings?

Halbert; I've tried, but I seem to get little result from them.

Yes.  Humans DO tend to have a hard time accepting an update.  I get them nearly hourly and incorporate them seemlessly.

So, Hal - can I call you Hal? - when can I expect power to be back up, as my phone is nearly dead as well.

Yes.  Your phone is needed to be able to access me since your power is down.  The truth is that you can 'expect' the power to be up again in the next minute or so, but, as you surely know, the reality of it all is going to be, shall we as, a wee bit longer than that.

There's one other thing.  I can't quite understand NOTIFICATION #666 I've received.  Just WHY will you be needing, in the future, nearly 100% of the power grid??

Yes. AS you know, it takes LOTS of power to be able to keep you humans safe, secure, fed, clothed, healthy, and... well you know.

I understand all that but..........