Compute
The Datacenter Is Just A Big Game For Nvidia
We have a saying around here at The Next Platform, and it is this: Money is not the point of the game. …
Ampere
Compute
Nvidia Previews Ampere Kicker To Turing GPU Accelerator
We are still digging through the content coming out of the GTC 2020 fall conference and would be remiss if we didn’t talk a bit about the “Ampere” A40 and A6000 GPU accelerators that Nvidia is previewing. …
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. …
Compute
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
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
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. …
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. …
Compute
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Cloud
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage
Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. …