How Elon's speed run to build a 100,000 GPU supercomputer for X.ai in 122 days shows the disruptive impact and the potential moat created by moving much faster than everyone else.
When Elon Musk decided to build the world's largest GPU supercomputer, he did it in only 122 days. The process usually takes two to five years. Going from zero to a 100,000 GPU mega-cluster in Memphis, the team from Tesla and X.ai may have set a new data center speed record. Some of the speed can be attributed to collaboration with the governments of city of Memphis and the state of Tennessee, who were active participants in the Colossus Project. But the real credit must go to Musk and his team. They secured rights to the location (an old appliance factory), sufficient power supply (150MW from the Tennessee Valley Authority), hardware (NVIDIA for GPUs, Dell and Supermicro for servers) and networking gear (Juniper).
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