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
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
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
The Covid-19 is a very very bad thing, but if it gets us out of a trade show…
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
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
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
Nvidia’s GPU journey runs full circle to embrace the synergy of graphics and AI In a way, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference of 2018 marked the culmination of the company’s past-decade journey, one in which it has explored and enabled new GPU markets, but one that has used that journey to further the goals of its original mission. A long way … Read more
