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Want to shove 30 GPUs in a computer system? Here’s an AI solution that will work as long as you are using Dell — Liqid allows one R760 server to connect to a whopping 30 Nvidia GPUs for now with AMD and Intel likely soon

Composable infrastructure firm Liqid has created a cost-effective and scalable solution for organizations looking to deploy high-performance inference capabilities in their data centers.  Unveiled at Dell Technologies World 2024, the UltraStack 30 crams a whopping thirty Nvidia L40S GPUs into a single Dell PowerEdge R760 server.  Liqid previously released a…

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‘Pushing the boundaries of digital expression’: 32-inch game-changing holographic XR display is launched — however it won’t be for everyone given its rather expensive price tag

Hologram firm Looking Glass has expanded its range of products with the debut of new 16 and 32-inch spatial displays, enabling group 3D visuals without the need for clunky headsets like Apple Vision Pro. The screens take the concept of extended reality or XR immersion a step further than before,…

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Missed out on the $500,000 Cheyenne supercomputer deal? Supermicro has an Intel server offer that you can’t refuse — eight Gaudi 2 AI accelerators, 76 cores, 1TB of RAM and 100GbE for just $90,000

Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services Administration (GSA).  After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085,…

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Another storage vendor wants to launch a 30.72TB SSD in 2024 and it’s one worth looking at — Phison unveils Pescari X200 in plans to compete with its own data center clients

Phison has announced its new Pascari brand of SSDs, targeting enterprise and data center applications.  The company says the move is, predictably enough, “a response to the exponential growth of AI technologies and the increasing demands for high-performance storage solutions capable of managing extensive data sets and intensive workloads.” The…

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Tech giant you’ve probably never heard of wants to put a data center in a shoebox build using 1000 3D superconducting chips — at 20 exaflops, it would be 20x faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth

To counter the strain on global energy resources due to accelerating computational demands – yes, AI, we’re looking at you – research institute imec is suggesting a radical shift away from traditional computing methods.  Its solution, detaile in IEEE Spectrum engineering magazine, involves exploiting the fundamental properties of superconductors to…

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Lenovo unveils surprisingly affordable AMD Ryzen 8000 mobile workstation — but why they saddled this capable workhorse with a puny 39WHr battery is beyond me

Lenovo has revealed its 14-inch ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 mobile workstation, powered by an AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 HS-Series processor with Ryzen AI and Radeon integrated graphics. Aimed at on-the-go professionals who need high performance in a lightweight machine, the ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 weighs in at just 2.89lbs and…

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