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Machine learning system using Nvidia GPUs NVIDIA became a household name through their graphics cards that gave PCs gamers extra horsepower to make video games run smooth and look gorgeous. Those cards today, with their graphics processing units (GPUs), have become essential components for high performance computing. NVIDIA is a leading manufacturer for GPUs involved in machine learning, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining.

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Designing for Density: AI Brings Denser Racks into Multi-Tenant Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 2, 2020 2 Comments

Digital Realty's Building P in Ashburn is among the multi-tenant data center facilities housing different types of workloads. (Photo: Digital Realty)

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for data center design, as high-density racks of GPUs require low-latency access to massive datasets, including some in the cloud.

Tagged With: Colovore, Digital Realty, GPUs, high density data centers, NVIDIA

NVIDIA Buys Arm: What It Means for Data Centers, AI and the Server Sector

By Rich Miller - September 15, 2020 1 Comment

NVIDIA Chairman Jensen Huang at a recent GTC conference. (Image: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm comes at a dynamic moment for data center hardware. Here’s how analysts see the deal’s implications for servers, AI, the Arm ecosystem and the data center industry.

Tagged With: ARM, Artificial, NVIDIA

Intel, NVIDIA Roll Out New HPC Hardware at SC19

By Rich Miller - November 19, 2019 1 Comment

Microsoft Azure's new NDv2 instance can scale up to 800 interconnected NVIDIA V100 GPUs, pictured here. (Image: NVIDIA)

Intel and NVIDIA rolled out new offerings around SC19 in Denver, the annual conference for the high performance computing (HPC) community, which provides a showcase for cutting-edge hardware.

Tagged With: Dell Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA

NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox in $6.9 Billion HPC Deal

By Rich Miller - March 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

The NVIDIA DGX-1 is packed with 8 Tesla P100 GPUs, providing 170 teraflops of computing power in a 3U form factor. (Photo: Rich Miller)

In a deal underscoring the growing importance of data center networking, technical computing heavyweight NVIDIA has agreed to pay $6.9 billion to acquire networking specialist Mellanox.

Tagged With: High, HPC, Mellanox, NVIDIA

NVIDIA Beefs Up Data Center GPUs, Teams with ARM on IoT Devices

By Rich Miller - March 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shows off new hardware for the DGX-2, the upgraded version of the company's desktop supercomputer. (Photo: NVIDIA Corp.)

NVIDIA today introduced beefier new GPUs, along with a new interconnect fabric to accelerate workloads, and an initiative to extend machine learning capabilities to smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, HPC, NVIDIA

NVIDIA: Volta GPUs Now Available Across All Major Clouds, OEMs

By Rich Miller - November 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

In his SC17 presentation, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s Volta architecture for GPUs is now available on every major cloud service to deliver AI and HPC.

Tagged With: HPC, NVIDIA

New Server Hardware Boosts Data-Crunching for AI, Cloud

By Rich Miller - May 31, 2017 2 Comments

A four-rack "pod" of Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and supporting hardware inside a Google data center. (Photo: Google)

The rise of specialized computing is bringing powerful new server hardware into the data center, a trend seen in new tech from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, ARM, Intel and Microsoft.

Tagged With: AMD, ARM, Artificial Intelligence, FPGAs, Google, GPUs, Intel, NVIDIA

NVIDIA Moves to Accelerate Growth of GPU-Powered AI Clouds

By Rich Miller - May 30, 2017 Leave a Comment

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NVIDIA is looking to accelerate sales of its AI hardware to hyperscale computing providers through tighter partnerships with original design manufacturers (ODMs), who have become key players in the cloud hardware ecosystem.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, NVIDIA, ODM, Quanta

AI Boom Boosts GPU Adoption, High-Density Cooling

By Rich Miller - April 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

A row of eight NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) packed into a Big Sur machine learning server at Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The rise of artificial intelligence, and the GPU computing hardware that often supports it, is reshaping the data center industry’s relationship with power density.

Tagged With: Facebook, Google, GPUs, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA

Microsoft, NVIDIA Roll Out Cloud AI Hardware

By Rich Miller - March 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

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At the Open Compute Summit, Microsoft and NVIDIA unveiled a new hyperscale GPU accelerator for artificial intelligence workloads in the cloud. The HGX-1 harnesses eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and high-speed interconnects.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Open Compute

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