> The BSC, Europe's leading developer of open source computing technologies
> The fact that the [..] architecture [..] of these new processors is open source, and therefore non-proprietary and accessible to all, reduces technological dependence on large multinational corporations
I hadn't heard of either BSC nor Open Source Computing before. I'm curious though, are there a lot of people out there who are not tied to large corporations and who have the knowledge and the means to produce computer hardware? Are there hobbyists out there producing their own custom chips and graphics cards?
The BSC has been featured a bunch of times around here due to their Marenostrum Supercomputer. A month ago someone posted a virtual visit to their Marenostrum 4 location, that's kinda surprising/interesting because is located inside an old chapel:
If they ever get AGI going it will have come full circle. You can go there to pray to your very visible god. Prompt engineering will be the new praying, you read it on HN first...
I don’t know about hobbyists but
there are less known companies doing open source hardware for sure, [1] here is an example of cool stackable parallel computing project.
I participated on the campaign and received mine, but not sure how are they doing today, it was a while ago.
Edit: Andreas Olofsson the original founder seems to be still active in the field [2]
There are also lots of interesting projects, like Aina, a project in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya (like the council? prefecture?) to foster the Catalan language with models and tools using HPC resources: https://projecteaina.cat/
> The fact that the [..] architecture [..] of these new processors is open source, and therefore non-proprietary and accessible to all, reduces technological dependence on large multinational corporations
I hadn't heard of either BSC nor Open Source Computing before. I'm curious though, are there a lot of people out there who are not tied to large corporations and who have the knowledge and the means to produce computer hardware? Are there hobbyists out there producing their own custom chips and graphics cards?