Nvidia Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/nvidia/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:18:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Nvidia Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/nvidia/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 1 144647 The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:21:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144643 Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/feed/ 3 144643 Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:21:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144614 Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/feed/ 3 144614 Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:53:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144612 After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. …

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/feed/ 2 144612 Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:00:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144595 Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …

Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/feed/ 2 144595 This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:58:04 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144567 When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/feed/ 6 144567 When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:32:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144563 Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …

When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/feed/ 1 144563 Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:27:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144520 Each time that the United States has figured out that it needed to do export controls on massively parallel compute engines to try to discourage China from buying such gear and building supercomputers with them, it has already been too late to have much of a long term effect on China’s ability to run the advanced HPC simulations and AI training workloads that we were worried would be enabled by such computing oomph. …

Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/feed/ 6 144520 So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/so-who-is-building-that-100000-gpu-cluster-for-xai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/so-who-is-building-that-100000-gpu-cluster-for-xai/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:49:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144472 The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …

So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/so-who-is-building-that-100000-gpu-cluster-for-xai/feed/ 9 144472 For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/for-meta-platforms-an-open-ai-policy-is-the-best-policy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/for-meta-platforms-an-open-ai-policy-is-the-best-policy/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:07:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144466 For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …

For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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