[Beowulf] interconnect wars... again...

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I'll defer to one of the Abe Simpson-types on this list for your second question.

Best,
Nathan Somers

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Jul 27, 2023, 19:10 by andrew.falgout at gmail.com:

> So I'm interested to see if a Beowulf Cluster could be used for Machine Learning, LLM training, and LLM inference.  Anyone know where a good entry point is for learning Beowulf Clustering?  
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> ./Andrew Falgout
> KG5GRX
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> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 8:39 AM Michael DiDomenico <> mdidomenico4 at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> just a mailing list as far as i know.  it used to get a lot more
>>  traffic, but seems to have simmered down quite a bit
>>  
>>  On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:50 PM Andrew Falgout <>> andrew.falgout at gmail.com>> > wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Just curious, do we have a discord channel, or just a mailing list?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > ./Andrew Falgout
>>  > KG5GRX
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>>  > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 9:12 AM Michael DiDomenico <>> mdidomenico4 at gmail.com>> > wrote:
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>>  >> ugh, as someone who worked the front lines in the 00's i got front row
>>  >> seat to the interconnect mud slinging...  but franky if they're going
>>  >> to come out of the gate with a product named "Ultra Ethernet", i smell
>>  >> a loser... :) (sarcasm...)
>>  >>
>>  >> >> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/20/ethernet-consortium-shoots-for-1-million-node-clusters-that-beat-infiniband/
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