Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb...
by zozbot234 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:36AM
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AI inference on existing model instances need not be very compute-intensive at all. The "training" (i.e. model fitting) phase is what requires a lot of compute resources.
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Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb...
by tyingq on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:57AM
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They are talking about customers spinning up Linux instances on their existing (mostly not Linux) mainframes, and special software to allow SIMD calls from Tensorflow to work, etc. I think that making a remote call out to a commodity box is probably easier in most cases.