Tag: high-speed
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		The Register: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disksSource URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/google_l4_storage_performance_improvements/ Source: The Register Title: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Feedly Summary: Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew ‘L4’ automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but… 
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		Cloud Blog: Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAXSource URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/unlock-faster-workload-start-time-using-orbax-on-jax/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX Feedly Summary: Imagine training a new AI / ML model like Gemma 3 or Llama 3.3 across hundreds of powerful accelerators like TPUs or GPUs to achieve a scientific breakthrough. You might have a team of powerful… 
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		The Register: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racksSource URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/nvidia_charts_course_for_600kw/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks Feedly Summary: Now that’s what we call dense floating-point compute GTC Nvidia’s rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a comprehensive overview of Nvidia’s… 
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		Hacker News: Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers"Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/nvidia-announces-dgx-desktop-personal-ai-supercomputers/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers" Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia’s unveiling of the DGX Spark and DGX Station supercomputers highlights a significant advancement in AI hardware designed to support developers and researchers in running large AI models locally. These systems enable… 
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		The Register: ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable opticsSource URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/st_micro_pluggables/ Source: The Register Title: ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics Feedly Summary: It’s Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, ST Micro detailed a new photonic integrated circuit (PIC) on Thursday… 
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		Cloud Blog: Networking support for AI workloadsSource URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/cross-cloud-network-solutions-support-for-ai-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Networking support for AI workloads Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we strive to make it easy to deploy AI models onto our infrastructure. In this blog we explore how the Cross-Cloud Network solution supports your AI workloads. Managed and Unmanaged AI options Google Cloud provides both managed (Vertex… 
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		Hacker News: Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behaviorSource URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9 Source: Hacker News Title: Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, discusses the potential of AI in creating a pervasive surveillance system to monitor citizens, enhancing law enforcement efficiency. His comments highlight the… 
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		The Register: What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/build_bigger_ai_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? Feedly Summary: We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Feature Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they’ve also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating…