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NVIDIA: New Hardware Will Transform Data Centers into AI Factories

By Rich Miller - March 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

Rows of NVIDIA DGX systems supported by NVIDIA Spectrum-4 , a 400Gbps end-to-end networking platform. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA today unveiled powerful new GPU hardware to serve as the key building blocks for its vision to transform data centers into “AI factories” unleashing new frontiers in technical computing. That includes the new Hopper architecture and H100 GPUs.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, NVIDIA

Top 10 Data Center Stories of January 2022

By Rich Miller - February 1, 2022

Rows of equipment in the Meta AI Research SuperCluster, Meta AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), a new supercomputer to enable new AI models. (Photo: Meta)

Future trends and the emerging metaverse were hot topics on Data Center Frontier last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in January 2022.

Tagged With: Aligned, American Real Estate, DataBank, Digital Realty, enchanted rock, Equinix, Flexential, Iron Mountain, Meta, Metaverse, Roblox, TikTok

Metaverse Platform Roblox Adds Data Center to Address 73-Hour Outage

By Rich Miller - January 24, 2022

Gaming and metaverse platform Roblox is expanding its infrastructure to address a 73-hour outage in October that left its 50 million daily users offline. The outage highlights the growing focus on infrastructure complexity and uptime.

Tagged With: Downtime, Metaverse, Roblox

NVIDIA Unveils Tools to Build Virtual Worlds, Accelerate Data Center Networks

By Rich Miller - November 9, 2021

The NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform consists of the NVIDIA Quantum-2 switch, ConnectX-7 network adapter, and BlueField-3 DPU. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA sees a future filled with virtual worlds powered with augmented reality and connected by powerful networks. At GTC the company unveiled new tools for world-building, creating 400Gbps Infiniband networks, and making AI more accessible to data center customers.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, NVIDIA

The Metaverse Can’t Thrive Without the Physical Universe

By Voices of the Industry - November 8, 2021

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In the Metaverse, users – and, presumably, devices – can be defined as participants and interact in personal, professional, and recreational activities within a modified, extended form of augmented and virtual reality. Phillip Marangella, CMO of EdgeConneX shares insights on the infrastructure that will be needed to support the emerging Metaverse. 

Tagged With: cloud data centers, Data Center Design, Edge Computing, EdgeConneX, Metaverse

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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Phoenix Data Center Market

2021 Overview of the Phoenix Data Center Market

Phoenix has established itself as a major market for cloud computing, and nearly every major hyperscale platform and wholesale data center developer has lined up land for future capacity in Greater Phoenix. The region is positioned for continued data center expansion, and the pace and location of that growth will be guided by deployment trends for large customers, especially regarding how they position their capacity and availability zones. This report, in conjunction with NTT, continues Data Center Frontier’s market coverage of growing data center hubs. Explore further for a comprehensive overview of the Phoenix data center market.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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