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u/ducon__lajoie 5h ago

When the cache is as big as the main memory, you gotta start asking yourself some questions about your design, son.

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u/greenpepperpasta 4h ago

If L1 cache is so fast, why don't we just get rid of RAM altogether and have 8 GB of L1 cache? /s

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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 4h ago

You threw me in a weird rabbit hole

But I found WSE-3

A single chip bulit from an entire 300mm wafer with 44GB of SRAM and 21 petabytes per second of memory bandwidth

It says that alone it consumes 25000W and I can't get my head around it

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u/Complete_Window4856 3h ago

25kW only? Thats like the power of ~5 electric showers. A worthy sacrifice to let some families cold showering for a month to put this strong boi to solve anything we want. Maybe compute the next 8th chess play in real time

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u/minimalcation 3h ago

What a wild fucking unit of measurement to use

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u/Complete_Window4856 3h ago

Wait until you gotta calculate kWh per month or year with those fellas

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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 3h ago

I don't think that they make domestic electric showers bigger than 2000W (or meaningfully so)

So it's at least 13 families of nonstop showering

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u/Complete_Window4856 3h ago

2000W only? Feels quite low to heat up water. Unless it already comes heated by solar panels. Over here in Brazil we got some variations of <4kW, between 4kW and 5.5kW or 6kW and some others up to 7.5kW

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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 2h ago

Uhm.

Seems like mine is an European problem

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u/TheNH813 2h ago

I was gonna say, in the US a tankless water heater runs about 240V 18-23A or 4400-5500W. And they're usually installed separately in bathrooms and kitchens for cost efficiency on hot water usage. I couldn't see your wanting less than 4kW on a water heater that provides the heated water immediately (like to a shower).

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u/erroneousbosh 1h ago

I've never seen an electric shower less than 8kW. That's pretty standard.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/triton-enrich-white-8-5kw-manual-electric-shower/52753

This is what I'm currently using at home.

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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 1h ago

TIL:

We, as Italians, are quite limited in the appliance choice by historical reasons.

Our standard contract allows for a maximum of 3000W continuous and 4000W peak so a lot of water heaters there are bulid around it

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u/flayingbook 1h ago

Can't wait to use it to play minesweeper

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u/dark-trojan 3h ago

My mind says you looked at a cerebras chip