Samsung’s 128 TB-Class BM1743 Enterprise SSD Displayed at FMS 2024

Samsung’s 128 TB-Class BM1743 Enterprise SSD Displayed at FMS 2024

Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, … Read More

Producing Cinematic Content at Scale with a Generative AI-Enabled OpenUSD Pipeline

Producing Cinematic Content at Scale with a Generative AI-Enabled OpenUSD Pipeline

Producing commercials is resource-intensive, requiring physical locations and various props and setups to display products in different settings and environments for more accurate consumer targeting. This traditional process is not only expensive and time-consuming but also can be destructive to the physical environment. It leaves you with no ability to capture a new angle after … Read More

Amazon Backs Nuclear with 0 Million for Small Modular Reactors

Amazon Backs Nuclear with $500 Million for Small Modular Reactors

Amazon Web Services is putting down half a billion dollars to explore nuclear power for its ever-growing energy needs. AWS is now partnering with Dominion Energy in Virginia to develop small modular reactors (SMRs), hoping to meet the growing demand for clean power as its cloud computing and AI services continue to expand. The company’s … Read More

Studies of migraine’s many triggers offer paths to new therapies

Studies of migraine’s many triggers offer paths to new therapies

He also tried levcromakalim, another blood vessel opener that lowers blood pressure. It’s a potassium-channel opener, and this, too, caused migraine attacks for all 16 people in the study. To Ashina, these experiments suggest that medicines that turn off migraine-inducing pathways at or before the point of potassium release could be of benefit. There might … Read More

Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI

Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI

At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the … Read More

This What We Do in the Shadows Portrait Is Dead and Out of This World

This What We Do in the Shadows Portrait Is Dead and Out of This World

Yes, that’s Laslzo‘s infamous witch-skin hat peeking from behind his back in Mondo’s stunning new What We Do in the Shadows poster by artist Robert Laskey, but hopefully (presumably!) its curse hasn’t transferred into the artwork. Also present and accounted for: Nadja’s doll, inhabited by Nadja’s ghost—or at least, the ghost of the human Nadja … Read More

Google Flights Introduces Cheapest Tab to Help Travelers Save Big

Google Flights Introduces Cheapest Tab to Help Travelers Save Big

Google has just rolled out a new feature aimed directly at those hunting for cheap airfare. If finding the absolute lowest fare is your main priority, Google Flights fresh “Cheapest” tab is designed for you. The new addition brings more budget options front and center, making it easier for travelers to spot the best prices, … Read More

Accelerate Large Linear Programming Problems with NVIDIA cuOpt

Accelerate Large Linear Programming Problems with NVIDIA cuOpt

The evolution of linear programming (LP) solvers has been marked by significant milestones over the past century, from Simplex to the interior point method (IPM). The introduction of primal-dual linear programming (PDLP) has brought another significant advancement.  NVIDIA cuOpt has now implemented PDLP with GPU acceleration. Using cutting-edge algorithms, NVIDIA hardware, dedicated CUDA features, and … Read More

What’s the ROI? Getting the Most Out of LLM Inference

What’s the ROI? Getting the Most Out of LLM Inference

Large language models and the applications they power enable unprecedented opportunities for organizations to get deeper insights from their data reservoirs and to build entirely new classes of applications. But with opportunities often come challenges. Both on premises and in the cloud, applications that are expected to run in real time place significant demands on … Read More