Topic: ai workloads
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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700: Professional AI Workstation GPU Now Available
The AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 is a $1299 workstation GPU designed for efficient, scalable AI model training and operation on both Linux and Windows platforms. It features the advanced RDNA 4 architecture and 32GB of GDDR6 memory, enabling local execution of medium to large AI models for enhanced da...
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AI's Data Center Dilemma: Balancing Growth and Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI is driving unprecedented growth in data center construction, creating a need to balance computational demands with energy efficiency and reduced ecological impact. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech companies like Micros...
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AI's Growth Tests Data Center Sustainability, Says GlobalData
The rapid expansion of data centers is driven by AI workloads and the need for sustainable operations, leading to environmental challenges like high electricity use and water consumption. Investment in data center infrastructure has reached historic levels, with major tech firms like Microsoft an...
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NetApp StorageGRID 12.0: Supercharge AI & Data Workloads
StorageGRID 12.0 is a software-defined object storage platform designed to handle modern unstructured data, with enhancements for AI workloads, security, and management. It introduces advanced caching and up to twenty times higher throughput for AI and high-performance computing, along with bucke...
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Distributed Storage Startup Challenges Cloud Giants
The AI boom is driving demand for specialized computing providers, but most businesses still rely on major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for storage, which are not optimized for distributed AI workloads. Tigris Data is addressing this gap by building a decentralized ...
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Snowflake's 32% Growth Defies Tech Slowdown, Proves Data Infrastructure Resilient
Snowflake's revenue grew 32% year-over-year, highlighting strong demand for data infrastructure despite broader tech budget constraints. AI is a key driver, influencing half of new customer acquisitions and a quarter of use cases on Snowflake's platform. The company's innovations, such as Cortex ...
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Fivetran and dbt Merge to Power AI Data Pipelines
Fivetran and dbt are merging to create a unified platform, combining data movement and transformation capabilities to simplify complex data architectures. The new entity will focus on open data infrastructure, supporting multiple cloud environments and tools while maintaining dbt Core as an open-...
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How AMD's Stock Will Fund OpenAI's Billion-Dollar Chip Deal
OpenAI will fund its multi-billion dollar AMD chip purchases using stock warrants, receiving up to 160 million shares as it helps AMD improve its Instinct GPU line and deploys significant computing capacity. The partnership could see AMD's stock value surge, potentially making OpenAI's stake wort...
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Cassava & Accenture to Build Africa's Sovereign AI Cloud
Cassava Technologies and Accenture are partnering to establish Africa's sovereign AI cloud, enabling businesses to process AI workloads while keeping data within their own countries to comply with local regulations. The initiative will utilize Cassava's GPU-as-a-service infrastructure and Accentu...
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Microsoft's Nadella: We Already Have the AI Data Centers
Microsoft has launched its first large-scale AI infrastructure system, an AI "factory" designed for OpenAI workloads, with plans to deploy many more across its global Azure data centers. Each AI factory cluster includes over 4,600 Nvidia GB300 rack computers with Blackwell Ultra GPUs, interconnec...
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Tech Giants Unite on Open Source Database to Cut Costs and Lock-In
Major cloud providers are collaborating on an open-source document database initiative, hosted by the Linux Foundation, to reduce costs and prevent vendor lock-in for AI applications. DocumentDB is built as an extension of PostgreSQL, leveraging its mature ecosystem while adding support for docum...
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Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD Review: HAMR Tech Revitalizes Enterprise Storage
Seagate's Exos M 30TB hard drive uses innovative heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to achieve a new storage density high, surpassing the previous 24TB limit. The drive offers sustained transfer rates of 275 MB/s and is available in CMR and SMR variants, with capacities up to 36TB...
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Kioxia Unveils 5TB Flash Prototype for Faster AI and Edge Computing
Kioxia has developed a 5TB flash memory prototype with 64GB/s bandwidth to meet the demands of AI and edge computing, offering a strong alternative to DRAM. The prototype uses a daisy-chain architecture and PAM4 signaling to achieve high capacity and throughput while maintaining power efficiency ...
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OpenAI Partners with Broadcom to Develop Custom AI Chips
OpenAI is developing its first custom AI chip with Broadcom, set for production next year, to reduce reliance on Nvidia and manage rising computational needs. The partnership involves a $10 billion investment from OpenAI, as confirmed by insiders, though both companies have not officially comment...
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