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. …
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
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. …
Just about everybody, including Nvidia, thinks that in the long run, most people running most AI training and inference workloads at any appreciable scale – hundreds to millions of datacenter devices – will want a cheaper alternative for networking AI accelerators than InfiniBand. …
If you handle hundreds of trillions of AI model executions per day, and are going to change that by one or two orders of magnitude as GenAI goes mainstream, you are going to need GPUs. …
For a lot of state universities in the United States, and their equivalent political organizations of regions or provinces in other nations across the globe, it is a lot easier to find extremely interested undergraduate and graduate students who want to contribute to the font of knowledge in high performance computing than it is to find the budget to build a top-notch supercomputer of reasonable scale. …
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