0.00 Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (si.inc)
412 points by nee1r 152 days ago | 274 comments on HN | Neutral ~lite vlite-1.4
Summary ~lite Technology Infrastructure Neutral
Technical article on building a 30 petabyte storage cluster for AI model training
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Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
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2026-02-28 08:28 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:28 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
ED, neutral tech tutorial on building storage cluster
2026-02-28 08:28 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 08:23 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:23 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
ED, neutral tech tutorial on building storage cluster
2026-02-28 08:23 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 08:17 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:17 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical post on storage solutions
2026-02-28 08:17 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 08:11 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 08:11 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 08:11 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Technical post on storage solutions