Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core

"5000 Erlangs" - oh, they meant 5000 instances of some Erlang interpreter. Not Erlang as a unit of measure.[1] One voice call for one hour is one Erlang.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)

So this is something like a 5000 USD machine (https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/ampereone-cores-are-n...) And is designed as a cloud provider or telco edge machine (hence the erlang consultancy)

But if you are looking at a hosted erlang VM for a capex of one dollar then these folks are onto something

Cores really are the only way to escape the broken moores law - and this does look like a real step in the important direction. Less LLMs more tiny cores

  “ Underjord is an artisanal consultancy …”

I would be much more interesting in seeing 5000 under heavy load.

Just being able to star that many instances is not that exciting until we know what they can do.

Wow man.