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It’s Back To The Future For Omni-Path InfiniBand
People in the modern era sometimes forget that networking predates the rise of Cisco Systems and the commercialization of the Internet. …
Mellanox
Compute
Now Nvidia Is Armed To The Teeth
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. …
Compute
The Local Maxima Ascension Of Datacenter At Nvidia
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. …
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Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
Compute
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, as Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
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Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks
Last week, when we talked to Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, about how the datacenter was becoming the unit of compute and in such a world networking was critical, it was obvious that acquiring Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion was just the beginning of the strategy that will no doubt unfold in the coming months and years. …
Compute
Nvidia Plus Mellanox: Talking Datacenter Architecture With Jensen Huang
The deal for Nvidia to acquire Mellanox, which was announced last March for $6.9 billion, has finally passed muster with all of the regulatory bodies of the world and closed today. …
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Mellanox Doubles Up Ethernet Bandwidth With Spectrum-3
The relentless need for bandwidth is probably something that all of us are well aware of these days in our home lives thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Compute
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia
The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …
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Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …