Jeremy Hsu pointing out - on 13 Oct - that Russia’s getting back what it started (kabooming data centres) is not working out so well for them because: centralised (Ukraine’s are more decentralised, some even underground). Several lessons here in realms from population & business control issues to war tactics & strategy, but what caught my attention in this piece was the “petaflops”
& supercomputer rankings. Some other technical details too.
Also, is it just coincidence that one of the kaboomed DCs was named Vladimir & that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin just had his birthday? (74 years young, thanks for asking 🤮).
“It was not immediately clear how much damage may have occurred to the supercomputers, which are based on Nvidia A100 GPU chips. The Chervonenkis supercomputer has a computing performance rated at 29.42 petaflops and ranks at 101 on the Top 500 List of supercomputers, while the Lyapunov supercomputer is rated at 20.03 petaflops and ranks at 161.”
“… A third Ukrainian drone strike then forced Yandex to suspend operations at its data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, on October 11, according to BBC News. This facility houses the third of Yandex’s three supercomputers, Galushkin, which ranked 134 on the Top 500 list and is rated at 20.64 petaflops of computing performance.”
Among the Comments this by motytrah addresses the bots & trolls traffic (which we’re struggling to get a handle on as it seems we don’t have appropriate metrics to clarify anecdata):
“… one thing I don't like about the reporting on this is everyone on social media says this took out bot nets. That doesn't actually seem to be the case. It's more likely the loss of Yandex indexing traffic means the bot nets can't find new social content to astroturf.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/russia-was-not-ready-for-the-data-center-war-it-started-with-ukraine
#Ukraine #Russia #Ruzzia #Yandex #dataCentres #supercomputers #supercomputerRanking #petaflops #LLMs #modelTraining #centralisation #socialMedia #botsAndTrolls #botNets #astroturfing
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