Compute
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
Nvidia
HPC
Composing ’Expanse’: Building Blocks for Future HPC
The composable systems trend has taken root in some of the world’s largest datacenters, most notably among hyperscale companies, but has been less quick to catch on in traditional high performance computing (HPC) environments. …
Compute
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture
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. …
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. …
Compute
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Compute
Nvidia Unifies AI Compute With “Ampere” GPU
The in-person GPU Technical Conference held annually in San Jose may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes Nvidia kept on pace with the rollout of its much-awaited “Ampere” GA100 GPU, which is finally being unveiled today. …
Connect
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. …
Compute
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
HPC
Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …