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Certainly doesn't look as impressive as Tesla's Exapod housing. How does the first principles engineering rate comparing Tesla's Exapod to this?

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Well if you want to compare them, Nvidia's has over 10x the memory and has historically sold > 1 units of their HPC products outside their company.

I'm not sure the aesthetic of what are essentially cabinets in a warehouse is that much of a consideration with HPC?

If you are convincing the board to spend that sort of cash you want something photogenic.

Most super computers - at least the ones I’ve visited - have some nice chrome. Their output tends to be a couple of numbers or something equally uninspiring so making them look awesome is key to funding.

Tesla's exapod doesn't and won't exist for the public outside of press releases, for one.

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