Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!").
Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly.
I've run large GPU clusters on OCI, quite happily. The hardware and interconnects are very good - NVIDIA has a good relationship with them because they are one of the clouds not making their own silicon. GPU clusters are Oracle's path to breaking into top tier of the clouds and IMO they do it well.
It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
> In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.
I used their free tier. Didn’t meet my needs. Tried to delete my account. It fails to delete my tenent, can’t talk to support because it is free tier. Email support refused to help. Told me to pay to talk to support. So they want me to pay so I can have them delete my account.
Yeah, I use their free tier. At $0 it's the best offering. But I end up with racknerd for just raw Linux machine that I manage myself with `iptables` and friends.
God speed, OCI is a pile of garbage. Once had them delete every single one of our production servers in the middle of the work day (in the hundreds of instances) due to an uncaught billing error.
Triage took over 3 three days and there was a significant amount of lost customer data and financial impact.
I wouldn't recommend OCI if they were the last cloud provider on earth.
On their conference call tonight, Larry Ellison indicated Oracle will be building a dedicated data center for OpenAI to use for training, with 1 GW of power, and its own power plant and DLC. Stocked with newest NVIDIA chips.
Running a data center comes with its own challenges. I imagine they don't want to be in the business of running data centers. Additionally running only 1 might have too much overhead.
At this point it's only a matter of who's got those damn gpu's and enough of them, or not, willing to deal with, eww, Oracle even. Since already in bed with Microsoft, why serve a lesser evil - upgrade to Oracle.
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Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly.
It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
Possible, as they have lost deals even in countries where they enjoy MFN: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-ceo-confus... / https://archive.is/zO35B
Wikipedia:
> In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.
Triage took over 3 three days and there was a significant amount of lost customer data and financial impact.
I wouldn't recommend OCI if they were the last cloud provider on earth.
were their billing reminders going to your spam folder or something?
What could possibly go wrong?
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