Interesting perspective on SemiAnalysis tactics from one of my LinkedIn connections.
I am sure you will delete this, so I will screenshot it and post it after you do. It shows you don’t understand how keyword advertising works. They don’t buy ads. They bid on keywords and the whole process is automated. The fact they shunned you is exemplary. They don’t want to be any part of your gross mafia tactics. Kudos to IBM!!! Oh and congrats on admitting to fraud.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-s-stevens
SemiAnalysisSemiAnalysis 4 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn
Interestingly, IBM Cloud has started buying ads based on the "clustermax" keyword. This is strange, since IBM actively worked against us during our testing period.
During our intro call with IBM, the analyst relations team stated that they "would only be willing to participate if guaranteed a silver rating or higher".
Maybe this is how it works with analysts like Gartner, and why their ratings show IBM > Nebius and CoreWeave, and OVHcloud > Lambda
In terms of technology, when we asked to test a slurm or kubernetes cluster (or both) IBM Product Management teams spent time trying to convince us to use their scheduler LSF instead of Slurm, OpenShift instead of Kubernetes, and Spectrum Scale (GPFS) instead of Weka, VAST, or Lustre.
After being denied access as an analyst, we tried to register for an account directly as a customer.
This led to an IBM Account Verification team calling our engineers on their personal cell phones, interrogating what we were using their services for, blocking our payments, and eventually shut off our IBM cloud account completely.
With all that said, it did take us only 45 seconds to spin up a new machine, a little bit longer to assign a floating IP, and access it.
IBM does not pre-install NVIDIA drivers, docker, and the nvidia container toolkit in their base image, and that's about all we've been able to figure out so far.
IBM currently has a Bronze rating since clusters seem hard to come by. We look forward to properly testing their services in the future.
For more stories like this, check out the full ClusterMAX 2.0 article on our newsletter.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-s-stevens
I am sure you will delete this, so I will screenshot it and post it after you do. It shows you don’t understand how keyword advertising works. They don’t buy ads. They bid on keywords and the whole process is automated. The fact they shunned you is exemplary. They don’t want to be any part of your gross mafia tactics. Kudos to IBM!!! Oh and congrats on admitting to fraud.
Jon Stevens
CEO Hot Aisle - AMD AI Developer Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-s-stevens
SemiAnalysisSemiAnalysis 4 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn
Interestingly, IBM Cloud has started buying ads based on the "clustermax" keyword. This is strange, since IBM actively worked against us during our testing period.
During our intro call with IBM, the analyst relations team stated that they "would only be willing to participate if guaranteed a silver rating or higher".
Maybe this is how it works with analysts like Gartner, and why their ratings show IBM > Nebius and CoreWeave, and OVHcloud > Lambda
In terms of technology, when we asked to test a slurm or kubernetes cluster (or both) IBM Product Management teams spent time trying to convince us to use their scheduler LSF instead of Slurm, OpenShift instead of Kubernetes, and Spectrum Scale (GPFS) instead of Weka, VAST, or Lustre.
After being denied access as an analyst, we tried to register for an account directly as a customer.
This led to an IBM Account Verification team calling our engineers on their personal cell phones, interrogating what we were using their services for, blocking our payments, and eventually shut off our IBM cloud account completely.
With all that said, it did take us only 45 seconds to spin up a new machine, a little bit longer to assign a floating IP, and access it.
IBM does not pre-install NVIDIA drivers, docker, and the nvidia container toolkit in their base image, and that's about all we've been able to figure out so far.
IBM currently has a Bronze rating since clusters seem hard to come by. We look forward to properly testing their services in the future.
For more stories like this, check out the full ClusterMAX 2.0 article on our newsletter.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-s-stevens