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The Buck Stops – And Starts – Here For GPU Compute
Ian Buck doesn’t just run the Tesla accelerated computing business at Nvidia, which is one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable products in its twenty five year history. …
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Fueling AI With A New Breed of Accelerated Computing
A major transformation is happening now as technological advancements and escalating volumes of diverse data drive change across all industries. …
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Nvidia’s DGX-2 System Packs An AI Performance Punch
When Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang told the assembled multitudes at the keynote opening to the GPU Technology Conference that the new DGX-2 system, weighing in at 2 petaflops at half precision using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators, would cost $1.5 million when it became available in the third quarter, the audience paused for a few seconds, doing the human-speed math to try to reckon how that stacked up to the DGX-1 servers sporting eight Teslas. …
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Tesla GPU Accelerator Bang For The Buck, Kepler To Volta
If you are running applications in the HPC or AI realms, you might be in for some sticker shock when you shop for GPU accelerators – thanks in part to the growing demand of Nvidia’s Tesla cards in those markets but also because cryptocurrency miners who can’t afford to etch their own ASICs are creating a huge demand for the company’s top-end GPUs. …
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The Engine Of HPC And Machine Learning
There is no question right now that if you have a big computing job in either high performance computing – the colloquial name for traditional massively parallel simulation and modeling applications – or in machine learning – the set of statistical analysis routines with feedback loops that can do identification and transformation tasks that used to be solely the realm of humans – then an Nvidia GPU accelerator is the engine of choice to run that work at the best efficiency. …
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Even at the Edge, Scale is the Real Challenge
Neural networks live on data and rely on computational firepower to help them take in that data, train on it and learn from it. …
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Just How Large Can Nvidia’s Datacenter Business Grow?
The combination of the excitement for new video games, the machine learning software revolution, the buildout of very large supercomputers based on hybrid CPU-GPU architectures, and the mining of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have combined into a quadruple whammy that is driving Nvidia to new heights for revenues, profits, and market capitalization. …
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Energy Giant Eni Starts Investing In Supercomputers Again
Energy is not free, not even to energy companies, and so they are just as concerned with being efficient with their supercomputers as the most penny pinching hyperscaler or cloud builder where the computing is the product. …
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NVLink Shines On Power9 For AI And HPC Tests
The differences between peak theoretical computing capacity of a system and the actual performance it delivers can be stark. …
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Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster
Generally speaking, the world’s largest chip makers have been pretty secretive about the giant supercomputers they use to design and test their devices, although occasionally, Intel and AMD have provided some insight into their clusters. …