Dawn Rising: Jumpstarting a new age of AI supercomputing in the U.K.

In November 2023, the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab announced the deployment of the U.K.’s fastest AI supercomputer: Dawn Phase 1.1 Powered by the latest Intel GPUs and CPUs aboard liquid-cooled Dell servers, the Dawn supercomputer combines breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced high-performance computing (HPC) technology to help researchers solve the world’s most complex challenges…

Generative AI’s role in increasing IT efficiency

CIOs and their IT teams — including operations/DevOps, site reliability engineering, and platform engineering — are charged with building and managing IT services that can provide near 100% uptime. When incidents do occur, they need to resolve them quickly. That’s a high bar, since a typical enterprise IT environment spans the cloud, edge, and hosted…

4 paths to sustainable AI

Regulators, investors, customers, and even employees are pushing companies to minimize the climate impact of their AI initiatives. Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. But AI users must also get over the urge to use the biggest, baddest AI models to solve every problem if they truly…

Democratizing IT at Munters

Stockholm-based Munters, founded in 1955, works across a wide range of industries to supply innovative and energy-efficient air treatment and climate solutions. Today, the company, with nearly 4,000 employees in 30 countries and 2022 net sales of SEK10.4 billion [$1 billion], is supplemented with more specific niche systems for data centers and food tech software…

Generative AI is earning good grades in education

As Nelson Mandela opined, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”  Teachers and access to education play a crucial role in our future. Teachers educate the next generation by sharing knowledge, fostering critical thinking skills, managing parents, and developing children.  At the same time, teachers face an increasingly difficult…

CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. What were once theoretical goals around environmental, social, and governance issues are rapidly evolving into mandatory efforts. The foundation for ESG reporting, of…