[Beowulf] And wearing another hat ...

[Daniel Keller]

 The tech YouTube Channel "Paul's Hardware" made an interesting point about the Del Complex BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster essentially being a massive barge with $500-million worth of GPU's on it floating out in international waters-- it would be an excellent target for pirates!  Being out in international waters is a double-edged sword-- on one hand your free of any one country's regulations and tax obligations, but at the same time you're not directly under the umbrella of protection of any nation's navy.  While the linked TechRadar article did state that the BlueSea Frontier would have security forces onboard, would they may be able to fend off the heavily armed pirates like what you see far off the coasts of Somalia or Malaysia?  In addition, once you're talking about $500-million in GPU's you might suddenly become an interesting target to nation states, *especially* nation states that have recently been banned from getting the most state-fo-the-art GPU's over the past year by the U.S. and its allies.  Could the BlueSea Frontier's security forces be able to defend the facility from Chinese PLAN Marines wanting to board it to perform an "inspection?"  Could it stop a large warship from seizing it, towing it, and "impounding" it?  I am not saying that such events would be necessarily likely to happen, but they'd sure be in the back of my mind if I was considering investing in the idea!
Just another factor to think about when it comes to building "sovereign AI states/ tax havens" on the high seas!


    On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 01:02:49 PM CST, John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 https://sealandgov.org/
Move to Sealand. It is a WW2 gun platform in the English Channel. I believe the servers are down in the legs. 
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, 17:07 Joshua Mora, <joshua_mora at usa.net> wrote:

Some folks trying to bypass legally government restrictions.

Is land on the Moon or Mars on sale for locating next gen datacenters ?

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-first-ai-nation-a-ship-with-10000-nvidia-h100-gpus-worth-dollar500-million-could-become-the-first-ever-sovereign-territory-that-relies-entirely-on-artificial-intelligence-for-its-future

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From: "Douglas Eadline" <deadline at eadline.org>
To: "Joshua Mora" <joshua_mora at usa.net> Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] And wearing another hat ...

> 
> I was talking to a writer about this story idea.
> 
> More to come.
> 
> --
> Doug
> 
> 
> > It would be good to track how governments try to "regulate"
> > technologies/materials/processes that have an impact on HPC (AI at scale
> > fits
> > into HPC) for good and for bad.
> > It could be for instance as convoluted as DC emissions cap aligning to a
> > climate policy.
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> > ------ Original Message ------
> > Received: 01:29 PM CDT, 10/31/2023
> > From: "Douglas Eadline" 
> > To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> > Subject: [Beowulf] And wearing another hat ...
> >
> >> All:
> >>
> >> Back in July, I stepped into the Managing Editor role at HPCwire.
> >> I'm covering for a staff sabbatical, and I will be in place through
> >> December, including attending SC23.
> >>
> >> A few things:
> >>
> >> 1. As ME, I am interested in what types of topics you would like to see
> >> covered on HPCwire (even if you don't read it)
> >>
> >> 2. Also, if you have something you think is particularly interesting
> >> at SC23 (yours or someone else's), let me know.
> >>
> >> As you can imagine, HPCwire sits (or stands or gets knocked down)
> >> directly in the HPC information fire-hose. I'm interested in HPC
> >> efforts, projects, and ideas that may not make it into the fire hose
> >> stream or may get missed.
> >>
> >> I hope to see you at SC23 (I will be wearing a blazer
> >> sometimes!). Not on Monday night at the Bash, though. I believe
> >> there is some T-shirt or wardrobe planned.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Doug
> >>
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