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By: baconisgod x Show Full Post

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Nvidia CEO Jensen says Elon Musk and his xAI team set up 100,000 H200 GPUs in 19 days, which normally takes 4 years.

Jensen says it's 3 years of planning then one year of installing the shit and getting it running.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/elon-musk-took-19-days-to-set-up-100-000-nvidia-h200-gpus-process-normally-takes-4-years

Pretty impressive? I'm guessing the team was working 24 hours a day.

Oct 15, 2024 6:59am PDT

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  Bullshitters gonna bullshit : ThomW
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    Oh you might have some idea but I am actually in the throes of this at meta. There’s some public in... : dafugg
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      Do they not see the photos of the hundreds of people on the teams that run these systems? : Halen
      
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  So what's the power consumption of 200,000 H200 GPUs? : TickHeadDog
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    Nobody answered 1.21 jigawatts. I'm so disappointed. : ajvitaly
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    i bet he'll personally install at least 50000 of those babies! : gokart.
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  Does it run Crysis?
  
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  Does it run Crysis? : someWayne
  - Never mind Crysis. Can it run Strike Commander? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Commander : hayt
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  Musk himself said it took "122 days", this feels like people are talking about different details? https:... : aethyr
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- All that tells me is that they did implementation without a whole lot of planning : Amusatron
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- They just skipped the planning, we'll see how things turn out in the long run lol : Halen
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