There is no denying that GPUs have incredible potential to accelerate workloads of all kinds, but developing applications that can scale across two, four, or even more GPUs continues to be a prohibitively expensive proposition. …
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU, but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. …
Sponsored When it comes to compute engines and network interconnects for supercomputers, there are lots of different choices available, but ultimately the nature of the applications — and how they evolve over time — will drive the technology choices that organizations make. …
It is a good thing for Nvidia that most of the hyperscalers in the world – or at least the ones that matter – also have substantial public cloud businesses. …
If the world was not a complex place, and if all machine learning training looked more or less the same, then there would only be one accelerator to goose training workloads. …
AMD has been on such a run with its future server CPUs and server GPUs in the supercomputer market, taking down big deals for big machines coming later this year and out into 2023, that we might forget sometimes that there are many more deals to be done and that neither Intel nor Nvidia are inactive when it comes to trying to get their compute engines into upper echelon machines. …
We have a saying around here at The Next Platform, and it is this: Money is not the point of the game. …
When we said thirteen weeks ago that we thought that Nvidia’s datacenter business would be its largest operating division before too long, we didn’t think it would only take a quarter to do that. …
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
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