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by Ryan Harman

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)

80 points by shenli3514 4 hours ago

vblanco 2 hours ago

380.000 concurrent sandboxes on 160 Epyc based server nodes. Crazy stuff

dangoodmanUT 8 minutes ago

that's only 12 sandboxes per core

redat00 5 minutes ago

So.. serverless ?

doc_ick an hour ago

Will admit that I haven’t read it yet, just saw the crazy number of authors and think this may compete for one of the papers with the most authors.

justinnk 42 minutes ago

This one [0] about the Higgs boson is hard to beat. Pages 25-32 are just full of around 5150 „authors“, pages 33-37 are their affilliations.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214

tempay 19 minutes ago

Even without that particularly special case, high-energy physics collaborations have long since broken the idea of authors. There are now many collaborations with hundreds of authors publishing regularly and quite a few that are into the thousands.

mendylanda 32 minutes ago

how do you even keep up with the amount of research coming out these days

swingboy 2 hours ago

Is there a lab more innovative than DeepSeek? Imagine if they had the same compute resources that Anthropic and OpenAI have.

ProphetOfParado 2 hours ago

Food for thought: Constraints are the source of creativity.

conception 2 hours ago

Yeah if they had the resources of an OpenAI or anthropic they’d be OpenAI or Anthropic. Scrappy underdogs have to be nimble and innovative.

mirekrusin an hour ago

rozim 2 hours ago

Possibly relevant: 突破技术壁垒, "break the technical barricade" -> overcome an obstacle through innovation (in this case, sub SOTA GPUs at least).

Native Chinese speakers to confirm....

michaellee8 an hour ago

impulser_ 2 hours ago

Short term they might have less compute, but long term they will most definitely have more compute. They don't have to worry about energy, they don't have to worry about people blocking them building data centers the only thing stopping them is there no Chinese manufacturer that can produce a chip as good as Nvidia but I would bet that solved in a year or so.

SmartestUnknown an hour ago

Just because other companies don't write papers about what they do doesn't mean they aren't innovative...

doc_ick an hour ago

Sure, but we’ll never know what they do or if it is innovate because we won’t know what they do.

ijidak an hour ago

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

Not sure they'd be the same without the constraints.