An engineer who worked at Twitter during the seismic Agrawal-Musk transition has been publicly reminiscing about finding a cluster of 700 Nvidia V100 GPUs. Tim Zaman, who now works as a software engineer at Google DeepMind, discovered this significant chunk of GPU power to be powered up but idle in the data center of X’s chirpy ancestor.
A few weeks post Twitter-acquisition in 2022 we found 700 V100 gpus (pcie, lol) in the datacenter.They were powered on and idle, and had been for ages: the forgotten remains of a honest attempt to make a cluster within Twitter 1.0.Haha how times have changed! 100k gpus on the… https://t.co/zSChG0BvVZJuly 22, 2024
