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The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts

September 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …

Compute

Details Emerge On Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU

August 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …

Compute

“Hopper” GH100 GPUs Are The Heart Of A More Expansive Nvidia System

March 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There are a lot of things that compute engine makers have to do if they want to compete in the datacenter, but perhaps the most important thing is to be consistent. …

AI

Nvidia Takes More Control Of Its GPU Compute Platform

May 30, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Nvidia got a little taste of hardware, and the company’s top brass have decided that they like having a lot of iron in their financial diet. …

AI

Building Bigger, Faster GPU Clusters Using NVSwitches

April 13, 2018 Paul Teich 1

Nvidia launched its second-generation DGX system in March. In order to build the 2 petaflops half-precision DGX-2, Nvidia had to first design and build a new NVLink 2.0 switch chip, named NVSwitch. …

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Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric

September 5, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …

AI

IBM Highlights PowerAI, OpenPower System Scalability

August 9, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth 0

The golden grail of deep learning has two handles. On the one hand, developing and scaling systems that can train ever-growing model sizes is one concern. …

Compute

Thinking Through The Cognitive HPC Nexus With Big Blue

June 21, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are plenty of things that the members of the high performance community do not agree on, there is a growing consensus that machine learning applications will at least in some way be part of the workflow at HPC centers that do traditional simulation and modeling. …

Compute

IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids

November 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …

Compute

Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …

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