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Submission + - AI Inference is Coming to Your Desk

Submitted by StyleChief on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:13PM

StyleChief writes: From Tom's Hardware:
Intel has announced its Arc Pro B-series of graphics cards at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, with a heavy focus on AI workstation inference performance boosted by segment-leading amounts of VRAM. The Intel Arc Pro B50, a compact card that's designed for graphics workstations, has 16GB of VRAM and will retail for $299, while the larger Intel Arc Pro B60 for AI inference workstations slots in with a copious 24GB of VRAM. While the B60 is designed for powerful 'Project Battlematrix' AI workstations sold as full systems ranging from $5,000 to $10,000, it will carry a roughly $500 per-unit price tag.

There's something to be said for the price point of 24 GB of VRAM for $500. Apparently, one demo included a system running the full 675B parameter Deepseek model entirely on one 8-GPU system, including 256 experts running on the CPU and the most frequently used experts running on the GPU.

Submission + - A Strong Solar Storm Is Inbound With a Full Halo CME (noaa.gov) 1

Submitted by StyleChief on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:45PM

StyleChief writes: The Space Weather Prediction Center is watching this closely. Check out the huge sunspot rotating to face the earth. From the report: With 3 CMEs already inbound, the addition of a 4th, full halo CME has prompted SWPC forecasters to upgrade the G2 Watch on 01 Dec to a G3 Watch. This faster-moving halo CME is progged to merge with 2 of the 3 upstream CMEs, all arriving at Earth on 01 Dec. G3 (Strong) conditions are now likely on 01 Dec. Continue to monitor spaceweather.gov for the latest updates.

Comment Re:LulzSec disables CIA web server, too! (Score 1) 404

by Paul Bain on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @06:35PM (#36456258) Attached to: LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard

LulzSec's disabling of the CIA's website (CIA.gov) is currently being discussed on ZeroHedge: LulzSec Takes Down Cia.gov One thing is certain. The crackers in LulzSec are damned good, OR they have considerable "inside" help at the CIA and FBI. Or BOTH!!

The State of Scripting Languages 415

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 29, 2008 @05:14PM from the coming-along-nicely dept.

Esther Schindler writes to tell us that Lynn Greiner has another look at the state of the scripting universe as a follow on to the same topic three years ago. Greiner talks to major players from each of the main scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript) to find out the current status and where they are headed in the future. "The biggest change since 2005 has been the growth of richer Web applications that perform more of their computations in the browser using JavaScript. The demand for these applications has forced developers to learn and use JavaScript much more than before. There's also been a lot of interest in Ruby, another dynamic language, spurred by the release and growth of Ruby on Rails. As a result of these changes, many developers are becoming more comfortable with dynamic languages."

Comment From a former employee . . . this sounds like IBM (Score 2, Interesting) 326

by StyleChief on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @02:11PM (#23827071) Attached to: Anatomy of a Runaway Project

I'm sure that there are other similar companies out there, but much of the language and all of the circumstances seem very familiar. Just curious, but how many other companies use the term "deliverables"? IBM, after purchasing Rational Software, decided that it was a good idea to move all projects to this process. About 2003, there was a huge stir within the company to document everything into a "process" and wasted months (nay, years?) in fluff process documentation that yielded no benefit. It is very interesting that their stock is doing so well at the moment. Lots of folks are jumping ship like mad right now . . .

Comment I never thought that I would see this story on /. (Score 1) 619

by Paul Bain on Monday March 10, 2008 @06:26PM (#22709068) Attached to: IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth

buzzardsbay writes "For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high-profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving myth. "It seems like every three years you've got one group or another saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""

Honestly, I thought that I would never see Slashdot post such a story, and I never thought that Rob "Commander Taco" Malda himself would post it. Amazing. Perhaps liberals are capable of change, after all.

For more information on the specious "labor shortage," google on terms such as these:

Ron Hira, economics (?) professor
Norm Matloff, Univ. of California CS professor
Kim Berry
Programmers' Guild
Zazona
TORAW, which is now probably defunct (IIRC).

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