At well over $150,000 per appliance, the Volta GPU based DGX appliances from Nvidia, which take aim at deep learning with framework integration and 8 Volta-accelerated nodes linked with NVlink, is set to appeal to the most bleeding edge of machine learning shops. …
One of the reasons why Nvidia has been able to quadruple revenues for its Tesla accelerators in recent quarters is that it doesn’t just sell raw accelerators as well as PCI-Express cards, but has become a system vendor in its own right through its DGX-1 server line. …
If you can’t beat the largest cloud players at economies of scale, the only option is to try to outrun them in performance, capabilities, or price. …
Not all of the new and interesting high performance computing systems are always in the upper echelons of the Top 500 supercomputing list, which was announced at the opening of the SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City this week. …
Whenever companies that sell compute components for a living get into the systems business, they usually have a good reason for doing so. …
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …
All Content Copyright The Next Platform