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<p><a href="https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0130-open-ai"
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<p><span
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Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with
OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — capable of
expert reasoning for a broad span of complex scientific
problems — on the Lab’s<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0415-venado" class=""
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which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct
national security research. <br>
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<p><span
style="color: rgb(12, 13, 23); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 17.7908px;">I've
been out of the loop (mostly) at LANL going on 15 years so few
if any of the players I knew when I was in HPC will still be
players now.</span></p>
<p><span
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wasn't that long ago (May 24) the Musk hisself "flew in" (?) to
Los Alamos to chat up his impending Collossus cluster in TN? <br>
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href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/a-lot-of-science-elon-musk-takes-private-tour-of-los-alamos-national-laboratory/article_d0de8bde-1940-11ef-b318-e7aeab106940.html">https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/a-lot-of-science-elon-musk-takes-private-tour-of-los-alamos-national-laboratory/article_d0de8bde-1940-11ef-b318-e7aeab106940.html<br>
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<p><span
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understand that the cooling/facility requirements for HPC these
days is roughly double that of the actual power consumption of
the gear itself for about 2.5MW for Venado (not sure how many
other signifcant clusters/machines are operating right now).</span></p>
<p><span
style="color: rgb(12, 13, 23); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 17.7908px;">In
my college days (northern AZ) they were just decomissioning the
steam plant heat that not only heated all the buildings but was
transmitted in tunnels under the sidewalks with limited
insulation, leading many sidewalks around campus to be ice and
snow free most of the time. Maybe LANL (and LA proper?) could
just use the street/sidewalk system as a vascular cooling
system?</span></p>
<p><span
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D (Decision Application) Division, there were a few (pretty
lamely conceived) ideas around using ML to build compressed
models to use in place of the real (often compute intensive)
simulation models... the biggest problem was that the
promoters understood even less than I do about the roughness of
such landscapes (nonlinear models exhibiting variations on
power-law scaling of structure). <br>
</span></p>
<p><span
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intuition suggests that thoughtful application of LLMs and other
transformer models in these contexts *might* well provide
significant leverage but at the same time, I expect the projects
to actually flagship for this effort to be grandstanders, not
meat and potatoes.</span></p>
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