When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
We like datacenter compute engines here at The Next Platform, but as the name implies, what we really like are platforms – how compute, storage, networking, and systems software are brought together to create a platform on which to build applications. …
Note: There is a story called A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers that augments and corrects information that originally appeared in this story as it was published on February 15. …
When we think about high performance computing, it is often in the context of liquid-cooled systems deployed in facilities specifically designed to accommodate their power and thermal requirements. …
Updated With More MGX Specs: Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …
The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. …
One of the first tenets of machine learning, which is a very precise kind of data analytics and statistical analysis, is that more data beats a better algorithm every time. …
If the emergence of Nvidia in datacenter compute shows anything, it is the value of controlling the software stack as you come to dominate the compute – and the revenue and profits – in the hardware stack. …
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