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Bookkeeping Helps Intel Recover From Server Recession A Little

Accounting is something of an art, and companies always save some accounting tricks – perfectly legitimate items that meet the discerning eye of financial standards – to goose their numbers when they really need it. …

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Bookkeeping Helps Intel Recover From Server Recession A Little was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Where To Park Your AI Cluster Is As Important As Procuring It

When we think about high performance computing, it is often in the context of liquid-cooled systems deployed in facilities specifically designed to accommodate their power and thermal requirements. …

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Where To Park Your AI Cluster Is As Important As Procuring It was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

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Vast Data Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Storage And Database

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. …

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Vast Data Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Storage And Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Unleashing An Open Source Torrent On CPUs And AI Engines

When you combine the forces of open source and the wide and deep semiconductor experience of legendary chip architect Jim Keller, something interesting is bound to happen. …

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Unleashing An Open Source Torrent On CPUs And AI Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Paving an intentional road to a sustainable IT future

Sponsored Feature: Meeting organizational sustainability requirements depends on so much more than optimizing electricity consumption and reducing an enterprise’s carbon footprint. …

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Paving an intentional road to a sustainable IT future was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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AMD Feels The Server Recession, Too, But Growth Is Looming Large

With a server recession underway and its latest Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators still ramping, this was a predictably soft, but still not terrible in the scheme of things, quarter for AMD. …

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AMD Feels The Server Recession, Too, But Growth Is Looming Large was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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GPU Shortages Will Prop Up The Clouds In More Ways Than One

For the last two quarters at least, the generic infrastructure server market – the one running databases, application servers, various web layers, and print and file serving workloads the world over – has been in a recession. …

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GPU Shortages Will Prop Up The Clouds In More Ways Than One was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches

Not everybody can afford an Nvidia DGX AI server loaded up with the latest “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators or even one of its many clones available from the OEMs and ODMs of the world. …

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Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Three Common Reasons For Analytics And AI Project Failure

ADVERTORIAL: According to the 2023 Dataiku-sponsored IDC InfoBrief — Create More Business Value From Your Organizational Data — “Although [AI] adoption is rapidly expanding, project failure rates remain high. …

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Three Common Reasons For Analytics And AI Project Failure was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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Supermicro Sets Its Sights On $20 Billion Business

Only a few years ago, motherboard and system maker Supermicro set a target of breaking through $10 billion in sales, and thanks to the explosion in systems for training and inference for AI applications, it looks like the company is going to bust through that goal in its fiscal 2025 ending next June. …

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Supermicro Sets Its Sights On $20 Billion Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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US Defense Department Assembles Generative AI Task Force

The Department of Defense in the United States has established a generative AI task force to help oversee the process of adopting AI tools across the department while avoiding some of the pitfalls of such deoployments. …

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US Defense Department Assembles Generative AI Task Force was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.