News Elon Musk took 19 days to set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs; process normally takes 4 years

[hushnecampus]

I wonder why the bloke he's buying the chips from would be so nice about him...

 

[das_stig]

It just takes a team with vision drive, determination, commitment, money and all other usual sound bites but lets be fair, Musk seems to get that out of people, take SpaceX he basically looked at what NASA/Boeing/and friends done over the that 80 years, laughed and then did everything they did in a few years with his guys with less money, so yes lets give him some credit, even if people generally consider him to be an obnoxious

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

It's an AI setup, so I think Musk's people just configured the first few units, then taught those how to set up the rest.

 

[EzzyB]

I'm sure he's the only person on Earth that could do it. Wasn't all this equipment already delivered to Tesla and he just diverted it to X?

Not too many people these days that happen to have resources they can cannibalize like that.

 

[uwhusky1991]

Elon Musk and the team behind xAI purportedly setup a total of 100,000 H200 Nvidia GPUs in just 19 days. That's a feat that should have taken four years to complete.

Elon Musk took 19 days to set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs; process normally takes 4 years : Read more

Ready, Fire, Aim!

 

[cirdecus]

Elon Mask what ? he did not do anything but hire people and pay $$$ .

lol, and all of the others who could only hire people and pay $$$ couldn't get it done in 19 days. What's that tell you? That's what leaders do.

 

[SLCPUNK]

How many people have /tried/ to catch a booster?

He hasn't gotten lucky over and over - he's burned a TON of money getting lucky 2 or 3 times, that's unlikely but not impossible. Musk has invented exactly ZERO things, let's get that straight right now. He didn't invent a goddamned thing. Claiming otherwise is just sycophant nonsense. He's a sci-fi nerd that buys companies doing things he thinks are cool. Then he usually hamstrings them ... but they are good ideas he recognizes - so he's not a complete moron - he's just a run of the mill idiot.

That lady running spaceX is doing a crackerjack job - Tesla would also be doing some great work if Musk would shut up and go play with Twitter (which he has also completely screwed up) .... or count his money other people are making for him.

Instead we get to have the worlds most insecure idiot constantly demanding attention like some sort of toddler.

Just curious, why are you so angry about him? You're seething behind your keyboard.

Didn't NASA just have to ask Space-X to send a Dragon spacecraft to rescue them because NASA can't?

You say he broke X, but the userbase grew from 400 million to 540 million in his first year of owning the platform, while cleaning out a lot of the bots.

I'm curious how you define "run of the mill idiot". Can you define what that is and how it applies to Musk?

That last sentence of yours kinda looks like projection. Just sayin'.

 

[JRStern]

The bigger the team the slower they go in many cases.

Yeah, but this team must have been 100+.
And it was staged for weeks and months in advance.

Now, I hope he's happy with his 100,000+ GPUs, he's all set to duplicate the LLM work as it was done five years ago.
Doing it with the most current methods probably doesn't need more than 10,000 at most, split between a dozen groups.

 

[CParsons]

You say he broke X, but the userbase grew from 400 million to 540 million in his first year of owning the platform, while cleaning out a lot of the bots.

We must be on different versions of X. I see more bots than ever.

 

[husker]

Yeah, but this team must have been 100+.
And it was staged for weeks and months in advance.

Now, I hope he's happy with his 100,000+ GPUs, he's all set to duplicate the LLM work as it was done five years ago.
Doing it with the most current methods probably doesn't need more than 10,000 at most, split between a dozen groups.

Glad to know technology, research, and computer science have all been solved, and people like Musk are wasting their time. Now we can finally get back to hunting and gathering!

 

[comperr]

Elon Musk and the team behind xAI purportedly setup a total of 100,000 H200 Nvidia GPUs in just 19 days. That's a feat that should have taken four years to complete.

Elon Musk took 19 days to set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs; process normally takes 4 years : Read more

NVIDEA heaping praise on big customer. When did Mr. Musk say he was going to do this? That's how long it took. Still impressively fast.

 

[Quirkz]

Didn't NASA just have to ask Space-X to send a Dragon spacecraft to rescue them because NASA can't?

NASA can't send a ship up because they have have been giving billions of dollars a year of taxpayer money to SpaceX so that SpaceX can build spaceships for them. They're behind plan on this project.

You say he broke X, but the userbase grew from 400 million to 540 million in his first year of owning the platform, while cleaning out a lot of the bots.

Twitter usage was never this high, and has been in slow decline since 2022 - when musk acquired twitter.

X/Twitter: number of users worldwide 2024 | Statista

X/Twitter's global user base has experienced fluctuations in recent years, with a projected decrease anticipated in 2024.

www.statista.com

Revenue has also dropped drastically

Twitter Revenue and Usage Statistics (2024)

Twitter is a real-time microblogging platform, publicly launched in July 2006. At launch, its defining features were the tight limits placed on each post, known at a tweet. Originally, users could only use 140 characters, although that has been elongated over the years. Formed by former Odeo...

www.businessofapps.com

as has market cap
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk

And the bots have gotten worse
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ots-republican-primary-debate-tweets-increase

 

[Nikolay Mihaylov]

Unfortunately, the news article doesn't say how many workers were involved.

Building a datacenter, with supply chains and skilled workforce that have evolved over time to support building datacenters more quickly, is nowadays much faster than years ago when those supply chains and skilled workforce didn't exist. ---- If building pyramids was popular today, it would take just a few days to build the pyramid of Khufu at Giza (height 146.7m) instead of 26 years.

Yep, I also complained about the missing team size information but in a crass way that lead to my comment being deleted :|

However, the elephant in the room is Jensen's 4-year estimation. That is complete nonsense. So it makes you wonder whether the 19-day period is that much of an achievement. I mean, that's about a 1400 racks with 72 GPU per rack. So about 70 racks per day. Doesn't seem so much. Sure, if it's ELon doing it alone that would be impressive. But for any competent team - probably not.

 

[Againstthegrain]

I created this account JUST to push back against this fan service without facts. So we are supposed to believe that there was no pre-planning; pre-engineering; pre-purchase; pre-builds; pre-staging; racks shipped, installed and wired? HVAC, electrical, and the building itself was all done in 19 days on a whim??? Did I forget the immense amount of gpu's that were just laying around waiting for a customer to come along who happened to have enough credit that the board said sure give it to him without paying first? Board approval and legal for that level of credit took at LEAST a week. Even the fan boys know this does not begin to pass the sniff test...unless Elon has a magic wand. Hyperbole wrapped in half-truths. Fake news.

 

[BryanFRitt]

(19×24×60×60 seconds)/(100000 GPU) = 16.416 seconds per GPU

 

[tanon]

How many people have /tried/ to catch a booster?

He hasn't gotten lucky over and over - he's burned a TON of money getting lucky 2 or 3 times, that's unlikely but not impossible. Musk has invented exactly ZERO things, let's get that straight right now. He didn't invent a goddamned thing. Claiming otherwise is just sycophant nonsense. He's a sci-fi nerd that buys companies doing things he thinks are cool. Then he usually hamstrings them ... but they are good ideas he recognizes - so he's not a complete moron - he's just a run of the mill idiot.

You know what really reeks of "run of the mill (sic) idiot"?

Some no-mark, complaining in a forum on the internet, about how this century's most successful entrepreneur is somehow secretly stupid.

 

[acadia11]

I would say it’s most likely he’s cut a number of corners and has a bigger whip than most, a man known to disregard workers and expect staff to stay at the office with a sleeping bag?

Drive and vision. You are right he could be less demanding and consequently he wouldn’t get it done in 19 days, he couldn’t find a way to come up with $4 billion so he could pay premium prices and get it done in 19 days, and he could have waited the 4 years everyone else is preparing to get up and running and he could also miss the boat on the potential wave of AI ROI, so you tell me … who’s way is better if it’s about making $$$s , the guy worth $200 billion or the guy typing on his keyboard complaining about the guy worth $200 billion. Not everyone needs to be Elon Musk, or hold his values and that’s ok … but he certainly deserves credit for this achievement. Like the guy or not.

 

[acadia11]

has any of them caught a 300ft tall booster with a launch tower before? how many self driving electric cars have they build? AI database in 19 days?

i'm not saying there aren't good execs elsewhere. I'm saying no one has had the sustained success musk has experienced since he helped setup paypal in the late 90s. this is a guy who's been on a winning streak unprecedented in engineering history. While i think Tesla cars are sorta mediocre, that's still the first successful US car manufacturer founded since the 1930s... every other one has been killed/acquired by the big 3. no one has managed to build a rocket as big, no one has been able to land and resuse boosters~

I'm not a musk fanboy, frankly i think it's a detestable person, but people insisting he's some sort of mediocre person who got lucky reek of jealousy. you don't get lucky like he does over and over again. you don't accomplish the impossible over and over again. Genius isn't limited to virtuous people, horrible people can be very smart as well. Of course i'm not crediting him with creating these things by himself, but at the bare min he has one of the best noses for talents in world history considering what his various teams in various industries are doing.

as an individual the guy seems to be the kind of person who would have owned the biggest slave plantation and proudly yelped a rebel cry, he’s not a humanist, and if there is a god I do t think he’s meeting him, but if we are talking results oriented drive and executive success by the measure of achieving a company’s goals he’s genius. Wouldn’t say unprecedented many of tech industries major shapers have his level of success, across vertical though he seems to standout from finance to transportation to tech to energy . I don’t hold his values but you can’t begrudge his results.

 

[vinyfiny]

Elon Musk. Tesla. SpaceX. Twitter. STARLINK! God bless Elon Musk. Best thing to happen in America in the last 40 years.

Twitter REALLY shouldn't be included in that list.

 

[RUSerious]

NASA can't send a ship up because they have have been giving billions of dollars a year of taxpayer money to SpaceX so that SpaceX can build spaceships for them. They're behind plan on this project.

Nah, it's the billions that NASA was giving to Boeing. It's been a disaster (like their airline business lately).

 

[padrescout]

You know what really reeks of "run of the mill (sic) idiot"?

Some no-mark, complaining in a forum on the internet, about how this century's most successful entrepreneur is somehow secretly stupid.

Oh come now, you and I both know it's not a secret.

 

[acadia11]

Hiring people does not mean giving the CEO the credit ... his name is known while the whole team and team managers names are never mentioned in the press.

Elon Mask does npt know ANYHITNG about AI or Computer Science or networking or servers and yet HE MANAGED TO DO IT IN BLA BLA days .

and from my experience .. MOST CEOs steal ideas and then pretend they did it. MOST.

Elon Musk. Tesla. SpaceX. Twitter. STARLINK! God bless Elon Musk. Best thing to happen in America in the last 40 years.

You’ve left out a few, Boring, PayPal, let’s not get out of hand he’s part of the Stanford pipeline of entrepreneurial achievement, he’s South African and he’s a superb business creator clearly but again this about value system and what you consider “best for America”. He didn’t create twitter or X or whatever it s

Nah, it's the billions that NASA was giving to Boeing. It's been a disaster (like their airline business lately).

you guys are clueless about NASA, government has a role and a place in the advancement from the technological standpoint of humanity. The idea it’s just private sector is silly … NASA started the space race and developed many of the initial technologies and ideas that we take for granted today exist because of governments, products you would be surprised to to discover, specifically the US government has the people and more importantly the budgetary capital and the lack of “capitalistic drivers” at pressure to invest in ideas with sufficient ROi. A private company could not have done what NASA did because they can’t carry the debt or even amass the capital required over the necessary time to make “going to space” viable at the time that space exploration started. It’s nothing to do with private sector does it better. Government got the ball rolling … it’s a consistent theme in history, internet dARPAnet research turned over to private sector , railways , highway system … etc … all government … these ideas government can’t do XYZ is a neophytes understanding of capital exposure, investment, history … technology and politics. Either way government and private sector actually work hand and hand. The “government” built the periods … I’ll let you think about that statement and government in fact is funding spaceX. And now back to technology.

 

[RyzenNoob]

Jensen Huang apparently disagrees with you. But what does Jensen know? All he does is hire people and pay $$$.

And apparently hiring people and paying $$$ is not as simple as it sounds, or other corporations would have done the same.

So you think that Elon is technically minded?

 

[RyzenNoob]

Ah musk the man some people just love to hate.

And not without reasons

 

[RyzenNoob]

lol, and all of the others who could only hire people and pay $$$ couldn't get it done in 19 days. What's that tell you? That's what leaders do.

Oh, I'm sure they can, but they don't go around claiming other people's inventions and I'm sure they give credit where it's due