March, the month of celebrations
Circles, depth, shamrocks, and the ides.
All about generative AI
At GTC 2023, the focus on this growing technology was everywhere.
Omniverse continues to grow, expand
More Connections, more cloud access, more compute power.
A ‘hard’-ware look at AI
Nvidia announces new AI cards, on-demand DGX services at GTC.
Nvidia adds to RTX Ada Lovelace GPU family
Introduces new Ada Generation GPUs for the laptop and SFF desktop.
Nvidia will offer DGX mini-supercomputers for rent
During their GTC 2021 online event, Mr. Manuvir Das, Head of enterprise computing at Nvidia, announced that the new DGX Station A100 and DGX SuperPod mini-super computers will be available on a rental basis as well as for sale. The option is helpful for customers who have limited cash flow available to purchase a new supercomputer or in many cases … Read more
Nvidia embodies bigLITTLE
If Nvidia is successful in acquiring Arm (and maybe even if they aren’t), Nvidia has some mighty big and small plans for, with, and of Arm. When Nvidia announced it intended to acquire Arm (see TechWatch: https://www.jonpeddie.com/editorials/what-if-what-if), they said in their ambitions (for Arm) in the UK that they would build a supercomputer AI research center in Cambridge. That was … Read more
Death to all trade shows
The good old days? A scene like this is now the stuff of horror shows. But, by the way, it looks like women may survive in order to rule the world. (Source: JPR) This was shaping up to be a terrible trade show season, now it’s turned into a no trade show season. The unthinkable happened in February when … Read more
Death to all trade shows
The Covid-19 is a very very bad thing, but if it gets us out of a trade show…
Nvidia almost announces Orin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU technology conference in China. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia has been holding GTC conferences around the U.S. and the world and recently held one in China. At the Chinese GTC, the company announced a deal with Didi, an app-based transportation provider (similar to Uber) to use Nvidia GPUs in its data center for … Read more
Ray tracing today
I first learned about ray tracing from Turner Whitted in 1980 and have been fascinated by and about it ever since. About eight years later I was working with a company called Meiko which was developing systems based on the Inmos Transputer. The transputer was an innovative and advanced 32-bit floating-point processor with four high-speed serial nodes, and it could … Read more
Ray tracing today
I first learned about ray tracing from Turner Whitted in 1980 and have been fascinated by and about it ever since. About eight years later I was working with a company called Meiko which was developing systems based on the Inmos Transputer. The transputer was an innovative and advanced 32-bit floating-point processor with four high-speed serial nodes, and it could … Read more