Connect
Nvidia Weaves Silicon Photonics Into InfiniBand And Ethernet
When it comes to networking, the rules around here at The Next Platform are simple. …
InfiniBand
AI
Blackwell Is The Fastest Ramping Compute Engine In Nvidia’s History
With the months-long blip in manufacturing that delayed the “Blackwell” B100 and B200 generations of GPUs in the rear view mirror and nerves more calm about the potential threat that the techniques used in the AI models of Chinese startup DeepSeek better understood, Nvidia’s final quarter of its fiscal 2025 and its projections for continuing sequential growth in fiscal 2026 will bring joy to Wall Street. …
AI
How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware?
Maybe they should have called it DeepFake, or DeepState, or better still Deep Selloff. …
Connect
Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom
Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. …
Connect
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
HPC
Thinking Outside Of The Box With The Jupiter Supercomputer Datacenter
The concrete has been poured and the first containers that will house the exascale-class “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany are being lifted into place for the modular datacenter that will be the home of the massive machine. …
AI
So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI?
The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …
Connect
What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet?
UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …
AI
Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
AI
Nvidia’s Enormous Financial Success Becomes . . . Normal
For the past five years, since Nvidia acquired InfiniBand and Ethernet switch and network interface card supplier Mellanox, people have been wondering what the split is between compute and networking in the Nvidia datacenter business that has exploded in growth and now represents most of revenue for each quarter. …