all that said, my offer stands: I'd love to help anyone interested to
bring nix back to life. I'd most prefer to do so on 9front, but I'm
not picky.
ron
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 8:18 PM Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote:
>
> I've thought for a while now that NIX might still have interesting things to
> say in the middle of the space, even if the HPC origins didn't work out.
> Probably most of us are walking around with systems with asymmetrical cores
> ("performance" vs. "efficiency") in our pockets right now; it seems like
> there's lots of space to explore *how* differently to manage these cores (as
> opposed to just spinning them up or not when needed but treating them as
> "regular").
>
> I think it's a good idea. But...
>
> > On Dec 27, 2024, at 08:32, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is very little compute that's "cpu-limited" at multi-second scales
> > that can't benefit from these approaches, hence the death of non-GPU
> > supercomputing.
>
> This is really good framing... even if it's bad for my idea. 🤣 "Compute
> that's "cpu-limited" at multi-second scales" really cuts out most
> applications at modern scale. Plenty of things like pro workflows, but the
> higher up you move there, the more likely you're pushing to GPUs anyway. I
> think the window isn't 0, but it's shrunk quite a bit.
>
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