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Johnson Controls, the global provider for smart, healthy, safe and sustainable buildings, has released a commissioned study* conducted by Forrester Consulting that quantifies the Total Economic Impact (TEI) and benefits of its OpenBlue platform.  OpenBlue is an AI-optimised smart building ecosystem of connected solutions and services which provides near real-time data visibility of the performance of buildings and workplaces. OpenBlue provides tailored energy-saving recommendations based on usage and weather data, and is integrated with FM:Systems solutions. Johnson Controls is FM:Systems' parent company. In the study, Forrester found that a model organisation representing a composite of interviewed customers from multiple industries deploying OpenBlue , including FM:Systems solutions, could achieve up to a 155% return on investment (ROI) over three years. Other key findings for the composite organisation included:  - Up to 10% energy savings.  - Up to 67% reduction in ...

NVIDIA has introduced the NVIDIA DGX personal AI supercomputers, bringing the power of the Grace Blackwell architecture, previously only available in the data centre, to the desktop. DGX Spark — formerly Project DIGITS — and DGX Station, a new high-performance NVIDIA Grace Blackwell desktop supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform, enable AI developers, researchers, data scientists and students to prototype, finetune and inference large models on desktops. Users can run these models locally or deploy them on NVIDIA DGX Cloud or any other accelerated cloud or data centre infrastructure. Global system builders slated to develop DGX Spark and DGX Station include ASUS, Dell, HP Inc. and Lenovo. Source: NVIDIA. The DGX Station. “AI has transformed every layer of the computing stack. It stands to reason a new class of computers would emerge — designed for AI-native developers and to run AI-native applications,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.  “With the...