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Workload placement
IBM i AI Infrastructure Planner
Decide what must be proven before an AI workload is placed on, beside, or away from the IBM i system.
Place the workload before choosing the hardware
The useful first question is not which AI product sounds interesting. It is where inference runs, where the data stays, and which infrastructure facts are already known.
How the result is produced:
Workload repetition, data locality, deployment scale, and operational readiness add fit points to four infrastructure choices. Unclear requirements push the result toward a readiness assessment instead of a hardware claim.
Limit:
This is an infrastructure placement screen. It does not select a model, license software, validate a specific Spyre configuration, or estimate model accuracy.
Why this is hardware-first
This planner stops at infrastructure placement. AI products, code assistants, and software selection belong on AI.as400Software.com. The hardware decision here is whether the workload belongs on Power, beside Power, or behind more readiness work.
A result is a research direction, not a claim that a specific model or accelerator will run a specific model workload.