#AI workloads

[govindhtech]

Dell OneFS: Improved Performance, Security, and Scalability

Dell PowerScale OneFS improves enterprise data storage performance, security, and scalability.

AI drives digital transformation waves that revolutionise operations and stimulate innovation across industries. AI must upgrade its support systems to reach its full potential. This transition is driven by modern data centres. Efficiency, scalability, and flexibility are essential in the age of AI, HPC, and huge data generation.

The fast-paced world of AI and HPC today shows that data drives innovation. Businesses generate and analyse massive amounts of data daily, allowing cutting-edge AI models and scientific research. Leaders can manage, protect, and profit from this ocean of data. Static repositories no longer store enough. Expanding networked data requires efficiency and flexibility.

The difficulty is handled by PowerScale. It helps IT decision-makers and data scientists remain ahead of the curve and meet their data needs while solving today's difficulties. Last year, PowerScale announced AI-optimized all-flash portfolio for 99% faster data retrieval and 220% faster data intake. PowerScale exceeds NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, Cloud Partner, and Storage program standards to assist clients of all sizes scale AI workloads. One more thing. We're moving towards future-proof data centre architecture with new technologies that can adapt to your demands.

PowerScale's Latest OneFS Release: New Innovations

The latest PowerScale announcements target system flexibility, operational economy, and storage density. helping companies succeed in a data-driven environment.

Doubling AI workload storage density with 122TB SSDs

Optimising storage efficiency and minimising costs is crucial to modernising data infrastructure. Dell Technologies introduced the first 122TB QLC SSD corporate storage solution. For all-flash PowerScale F910 and F710 nodes, 122TB Solidigm QLC SSDs effectively access approximately 6 PBs of storage per node, reducing hardware, operational costs, and energy use. This lowers storage and improves performance by providing quick data access to GPUs for AI model training. Environmentally conscious data centres can enter.

Improve Cluster Performance with Compute Flexibility

PowerScale is also releasing the PA110 Accelerator Node to enhance CPU bottlenecks and cluster performance. It replaces P100 and B100 performance and backup accelerators.

The latest 1U accelerator node provides flexible scaling in single node increments for organisations looking to boost compute performance without capacity growth. Your storage environment's cost/performance ratio drops. With more cluster frontend ports, the PA110 boosts connection and bandwidth for faster task optimisation.

The PA110 helps IT managers optimise data centre resource allocation, ensuring an efficient workflow that improves a modern, adaptive data centre.

Scaling Wisely with an Optimised Portfolio Mix

The latest OneFS version updates the hardware in hard drive-based H710, H7100, A310, and A3100 nodes. These systems offer low-cost tiering for high-performance applications across PowerScale and are node pool compatible with older hybrid and archive platforms. The TCO-optimized A-Series and balanced cost/performance H-Series nodes extend PowerScale's range and demonstrate its flexibility to meet your storage demands.

The revised nodes have these features:

Fourth-generation Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs

DDR5 DRAM with 75% faster bandwidth and speed

Persistent NVMe M.2 flash vault drives accelerate cache recovery and destage.

Higher thermal performance reduces component stress and heat.

A 100% faster SAS drive carrier has been upgraded.

Support for the industry-leading 32 TB HAMR technology will be implemented in 2025, increasing density and lifespan.

Businesses must look beyond their immediate needs more than ever. Due to the rapid expansion of AI applications and their costs, flexible infrastructure is essential for enterprise IT. PowerScale, the most flexible scale-out NAS, is the foundation of modern data centres.

With PowerScale's latest offerings, organisations can focus on AI innovation without rigidity or operational inefficiencies. The PowerScale All-Flash nodes, new Accelerator nodes, and revised HDD-based portfolio work together to fulfil evolving storage needs more intelligently and economically. PowerScale securely scales AI data for backups or regular use.

PowerScale may help your company future-proof its infrastructure and enable AI, HPC, and other capabilities.

[cyle]

maybe i should be taken off the staff early preview allowlists while im on paternal leave. i don’t think i wanna see certain things yet and worry about them.

[kiristoarts]

Honestly dtmg has so much missed potential with ghost characters. Like other than Billy you only see another ghost once (Bobby) which opens up the idea that there's other ghosts the cast can interact with but they don't. I know you explored it in some of your fics but like, for example, they could have come up with fun explorations of house dietys (spirits that protect homes and houses in Japanese folklore I think) or haunted objects or haunted areas. Like for example irl it's said that the Hollywood sign is haunted. It just could have been so much fun if they could explore that properly.

I 1000% agree! That's one reason I started writing DTMG stuff to begin with. DTMG has a lot of tropes that I LOVE, like Ghosts, Music (though I prefer rock and roll over pop), and corny/B list horror/zombie movies (especially 80's ones). Unfortunately, we didn't really get much of that in the show...

I had several ideas for various ghosts and hauntings that the boys would get involved in, but I just haven't gotten around to writing them. Long post, so more under the cut if you're interested:

I had one idea drafted about Spencer working part-time at a movie theater, only to realize it was haunted by a ghost from the black and white films era who would trap his victims in silent movie-esque scenarios. The ghost was upset about being forgotten and left behind. The boys would have to figure out how to calm the ghost down and would work out a compromise, getting the theater to have a classic movie night every now and then, so the ghost wouldn't keep trapping people. Another idea I had was for Spencer to start delving into 'ghost hunting' videos on his MeTube channel. It doesn't go as well as he thought because all the fancy 'ghost hunting' equipment he bought turns out to be mostly BS or 'the living' can't see the evidence. Here's a little drabble I wrote:

“Ok, EVP test,” Spencer said into the mic as he panned his camera around. “Is there anyone here who would like to talk?” Billy grinned and waved when the camera turned to him. “BJC here!” “Not you,” Spencer snapped. “Anyone else, who might want to talk with us?”

At one point, Spencer actually finds one haunted house but doesn't realize it until the ghost follows him home and starts to torment him and Billy in the mansion. Here's the little drabble I was thinking of when they get home after a hunt and order take-out, only to be met with something worse than a bad delivery driver. Please pardon how rough it is:

Spencer opened the door, grinning at their would-be food bearer. But blinked at the empty space that greeted him instead. He took two steps out of the entrance, looking around, but there was no one there. Not even a delivery bag was left on the stoop. Huh... Maybe he’d imagined it? But no. Billy heard it too. Even told him to go answer the door and get the food. Confused, he shook his head, stepped back in, and closed the door. Maybe the delivery guy had left when Spencer took too long to get to the door. He turned back around and started making his way back up the stairs. Knock Knock Knock Spencer’s heart lept and he whipped around. He shook his head to get a hold of himself. The deliveryman came back. That was all. Must have been within view of the house and seen Spencer come to the door. “Coming!” He called as he jogged over to ensure they didn’t leave again. He flung the door open, anticipating seeing that friendly face even more now. Nothing.  Spencer’s heart sank. He took a few hurried steps outside, looking around in all directions. There was no one else around. He stretched up on his toes, looking over the decorative walls and shrubs around the yard. Maybe a ding-dong-ditch-er was playing a prank; some neighborhood kids or any one of his many, many school bullies. Someone must have found out he was home alone (more or less) and was trying to scare him.  “Not very clever, ya know! It’ll take more than that to scare me!” He shouted into the darkness. No response. A wave of embarrassment washed over him at how ridiculous he must look right now. Outside, by himself, yelling at nothing. He ran back inside and slammed the door, locking it behind him. There was a logical explanation. Maybe the delivery guy had come and gone again. Somehow, impossibly, quick enough that Spencer hadn’t seen him. That was all, right? Right.  Spencer sucked in a breath. Everything was fine. He was the Horror Helmer after all, they’d have to do more than knock to scare him. Spencer started back towards the stairs. Five steps away from the door. Six, seven, eight, nine- KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK Spencer jumped, spinning around and nearly falling over. His heart pounded in his chest so loud that he nearly mistook it for more knocking. Spencer sucked in a breath to brace himself and bolted for the door. He flung it open, letting it swing back and hit the wall, not caring if it left a mark. Now someone HAD to be there. He’d been too fast at answering, even if someone was trying to hide he would still spot them, there weren’t that many hiding places immediately outside the door.  No one. Nothing. The same silent, dark, empty space, dimly lit by the porch lights.  Not even a single moth fluttering around the lamp. . . Huh. NO insects or insect sounds of any kind now that he was listening. No distant echoes of cars driving by, no crickets chirping, no shouting from late-night party goers. Not even the wind. Every hair on Spencer’s body stood on end. He slowly shut the door, bolted the locks, and backed up, keeping his eyes fixated on it.  “YO! Brozilla!” Spencer jumped a foot in the air, and he fell on his backside. Billy swung down into his frame of view. “What gives, dude? Answer the door! The Cobra needs to get his munchies on!” Spencer’s mouth worked, trying to form words, but nothing came out. Billy only gave him a few seconds, staring with a slightly irritated look, one eyebrow raised. Then he rolled his eyes. “Fine, I’ll get it,” he said, clearly not caring if he was seen or not. Spencer tried to call out, to tell him not to answer it, but the words were stuck in his throat.

Throughout the series, Billy's powers keep growing: he can hear things in evp static that 'the living' can't hear, and he can see ghosts when he's just out and about on a normal day, and it freaks him out. I did actually write one story where he sees a ghost who died in a fire, but I never posted it because it was kind of dark and depressing....(I wrote it during a low point, but if anyone is interested, let me know)

Back on the Billy shenanigans front, I had one idea where Spencer was playing around with the idea of making a slasher film, only for Billy's ecto to cause chaos once again. I wanted to title it Chainsaw Slasher after the VHS Glitch song.

Another drabble I was working on was them investigating an entire ghost town. During the day, it was much less exciting than Spencer was led to believe. But if you're one of the unlucky few to hear the bell tower chime at sunset while there's no one else around, then get ready for one hell of a night.

I had a standalone story that was kind of a "What If?" where Mallory kept the pirate hat on in Ep 1 and she saw Billy and how that'd unfold.

AND, to round out my Ghost Stories series, I had an idea where Billy goes toe-to-toe with Hoover in the Beverly Beverly Hills High School gymnasium, and his powers basically obliterate the gym. This lets Madam X know he's becoming too strong and getting further out of her reach, so she hatches a plan and uses the help of Bobby to finally catch him. The gang has to figure out how to break him out. This all leads into another plot about how he actually died and her possible unintentional involvement.

So yeah, I digress. They could have done SO MUCH with all these neat tropes. And I feel terrible about not continuing the series atm, but unfortunately, ~ L I F E ~ decided to get in the way...

[gojoest]

in about 2 hrs i’ll be seeing my cat i am so happy

[blanket-fish]

Just saw a horrifying Reddit post. It's not just the kids using ChatGPT, it's the TEACHERS as well.

[deathemayor]

saw a take that peeved me in the vocaloid feed on bluesky but i don’t wanna be confrontational there + my thoughts are too powerful for a 300 character per post thread so im making it tumblr’s problem

due to my intense vsynth brainworms this is going to sound incredibly pedantic and annoying which is why i am posting it here okay here we go

the post was sort of a ‘callout’ of a creator who uses synthv for covers of fnf songs or whatever. the general body was like “they write their own lyrics but they make the vocals using ai with a program called synthesizer v” (the implication being, “this person is an ai-using fraud, don’t support them”)

if ur in the community or like have a little bit of an idea of how ai is associated with synthv specifically this is a nonsense uninformed take (the ‘ai’ training is used for autotuning/cross language synthesis/some other shit idk but the point is it’s not the type of ai that like, writes the melody/lyrics for you and is voiced from random samples from unknowing providers but i’ll get back to this later)

ai is mentioned on synthv’s website (also vocaloid’s much to the detriment of news articles that report on hatsune miku) so it’s a common misunderstanding, whatever. it would be nice if people actually looked into the ways ai works in vsynth at least a little bit but in an age where artists are on the defense against the ai boogeyman i guess i sorta understand the knee jerk reaction to assume the ai in vsynth software like synthv is the Bad kind. annoying, but nothing new.

but i think what made this post rotate in my mind to the point of crystallizing into unnecessary rage is an add-on that was like “i just prefer my music to be sung by real people!” followed by “by the way, vocaloid isn’t ai, so no you’re not bad if you like hatsune miku music”

ohhh man this actually did piss me off a little cuz wow way to really shout to the heavens that you have no damn clue what you’re talking about

firstly, i COMPLETELYYYY understand that the premise and general sound of vocal synth music is not for everyone. the computerized words, the unrealism, or even the fact that it’s not an actual person singing, like whatever that’s fine i get it. but like you can’t go around and be like “by the way vocaloid [aka hatsune miku] is chill don’t worryyyy” bc that line of thinking from my understanding doesn’t really make sense? miku isn’t a real person either 😭😭 her latest release even uses ai! (at least i think it does cuz vocaloid 6 has ai support but idk i guess that doesn’t matter) does she just get a free pass cuz she’s an internet darling?

miku is a piece of software where you write the midi for her vocals and input the lyrics so a slurry of samples recorded by saki fujita can be played back in an in-character singing voice. synthv is a piece of software with similar character voice databases where you do the same thing, write a midi and input lyrics so a database’s voice samples put it all together to sing back. the inclusion of ai in this process is to streamline the workflow for the user to automatically work out the pitch transitions between notes to save on time manually tuning, creating a more realistic playback. this ai, perhaps merely the inclusion of these two letters in the proximity of synthv’s marketing, is what makes synthv both Significantly Different and Inferior to miku.

the lack of ai with vocaloid (as far as op knew, cuz need i remind you vocaloid as of its 6th installment uses similar ai to synthv lol) making it Better than synthv sent the implication, TO ME, that op thinks that the ai used in synthv is the type that like, takes samples from other people without their permission to create the voices (then leading to the “i just want my songs sung by REAL people” aka not sung by dubiously gathered samples). i recognize this means of creating ai voices to impersonate other people and make them say things they should not without their knowledge or permission is CERTAINLY bad but like that’s not how any of this works if we’re talking synthv (you could argue this applies to those utau banks that make voicebanks for like sonic the hedgehog and shit but those usually sound like ass and are about as convincing as a sentence mixed youtube poop). maybe that’s not what they meant (i don’t wanna dig up the post cuz i don’t wanna be bothered and it’s probably gonna piss me off to the point of starting something which i don’t want) but based on my understanding of their point this is like. wholly untrue. in fact synthv voicebanks (particularly those from eclipsed sounds whose terms of service are free to read on their website) have special terms specifically designed to protect the voice providers of their databases BECAUSE of the extra realism in their voices (terms such as, “you can’t credit any voice work done with Solaria to Emma Rowley [her voice provider] or anyone else besides the software itself” in the case Solaria is used to say something objectionable and cast it on Rowley, that would be a breach of the terms and might even get your license revoked). shit like that is likely what people who are afraid of ai voices expect to happen but there were contracts signed to protect and inform the voice providers of what their vocal likeness is being used for + compensation paid to them for their work providing vocal samples SPECIFICALLY for this product. and ofc miku is the same. ITS THE SAME. BUT MIKU IS A FUNNY INTERNET MEME SO SHES FINE. GRRRRR!!!!!!

[fvckw4d]

In case anyone was wondering how adult sites are dealing with some states in the US trying to force websites with "sensitive material" to verify the age of every single fucking visitor, many have started either forcing users to sign up for an account and show a picture of their ID or, if they don't have the pull or staff for that, fucking using AI to check webcam footage of your face and having it guess your age.

No I'm not joking. We live in hell.

[ayeforscotland]

When I became freelance, one of my first marketing contracts was fixing my boss' blog posts and articles that he had 'written' with ChatGPT.

It was the single most soul-sucking task I have ever done in my life. I could have ghostwritten it for them faster than it took me to edit it.

ChatGPT would often hallucinate features of the product, and often required more fact-checking than the article was worth.

It is absolutely no surprise that 77% of employees report that AI has increased workloads and lowered productivity, while 96% of executives believe it has boosted it.

The reality is that it's only boosted the amount of work employees have to do which leads to increased burnout, stress and job dissatisfaction.

Source.

[theorderofthetriad]

can we go back to the "You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things."? Paying college tuition is not "buying accreditation" it's paying for the education that will allow you to earn a degree. Paying tuition does not entitle you to a goddamn degree. You have to do the work to earn it that is how it has always fucking worked.

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[sharon-ai]

AI Infrastructure Solutions: The Backbone of High-Performance AI Development

Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries across the world, and to accomplish that, it needs a strong foundation in the form of infrastructure support for complex tasks like deep learning, machine learning, and data analysis. Advanced AI infrastructure solutions form the core on which AI models are developed, deployed, and optimized.

What is High-Performance AI Infrastructure?

High-performance AI infrastructure refers to a specific hardware-software combination that caters to intensive computational needs of AI-related tasks, such as deep learning models training, and predictions. Computer systems of conventional type rarely provide the capability for handling such operations; thus, advanced infrastructure is highly reliant.

These comprise of:

- Powerful GPUs:

 These are designed with parallel computing in mind so that they can accelerate any AI task far beyond any standard CPU.

- Massive Storage: 

AI models require vast amounts of data, requiring scalable and fast storage solutions.

- Efficient Networking: 

High-speed communication for smooth data flow during training and inference processes.

This infrastructure allows businesses to complete AI tasks more efficiently, enhancing innovation and accuracy.

Role of AI Workload Optimization

AI workload optimization services are an important way of enhancing the efficiency of processes in AI. The right services would ensure that data processing and model training are all done effectively.

Optimizing AI workloads provides numerous benefits.

- Reduces Processing Time:

 Proper infrastructure reduces the time for training models and making predictions.

- Increases Resource Utilization:

 Optimized workloads use computing power as much as is available.

- Cost Savings: 

Resource consumption management reduces hardware expenditure and energy consumption.

Optimization helps companies harness the full potential of infrastructure with high performance, giving better results and higher efficiency.

Why AI Infrastructure is So Important for Deep Learning

Deep learning needs unique infrastructure to handle massive data as well as computing power used in training complex models. Without proper infrastructure, deep learning projects can become slow, inefficient, and costly.

With the right AI infrastructure, businesses can:

Train complex models: Deep learning models require large datasets and quite a bit of processing power. High-performance infrastructure accelerates the training process.

Scale AI projects: As deep learning models evolve, businesses need infrastructure that can scale with increasing data and computational demands.

GPU-Powered Infrastructure: The Boost for AI Development

GPU-powered AI infrastructure accelerates both the training and inference processes of AI models. GPUs are better suited than CPUs for handling the parallel tasks common in machine learning and deep learning, making them essential for fast, efficient AI development.

Benefits include:

- Faster Training Times: GPUs can process multiple tasks simultaneously, significantly reducing training time.

- Faster Inference Speed: Once the models are trained, they make rapid predictions, a must for real-time applications.

The Future of AI Infrastructure

As AI keeps advancing, the call for powerful infrastructure will go only higher. Whether optimization of workloads, making use of GPU-powered systems, or scaling deep learning models, this requires businesses to invest in the right infrastructure to not get left behind. At Sharon AI, we provide customers with end-to-end solutions of AI infrastructure, whether workload optimization or GPU-powered AI systems, to accelerate business with AI capabilities. Ready to give your AI performance a boost? Explore our AI services today!

[inkedmyths]

This is a lil silly but if u wanna see my doodles alongside a thing my Dad's doing (finally he has creative enrichment)... here

All I ask is BE NICE!!!! TO DAD!!!!! U can laugh at my art tho it was all simple silly sketches :)

[catherinadodson1976blog]