Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Nvidia Shows Renewed Interest in Top500 List, but Not for GPUs

Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to ...Full Article

Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium

Consider the GPU. An island of SIMD greatness that makes light work of matrix math. Originally designed to rapidly paint dots on a computer monitor, it was then found to be ...Full Article

Nvidia’s Newly DPU-Enabled SuperPod Is a Multi-Tenant, Cloud-Native Supercomputer

At GTC 2021, Nvidia has announced an upgraded iteration of its DGX SuperPods, calling the new offering “the first cloud-native, multi-tenant supercomputer.” The newly announced SuperPods come just two ...Full Article

Nvidia Probes Accelerators, Photons, GPU Scaling

Nvidia spotlighted an AI inference accelerator, emerging optical interconnects and a new programming framework designed to scale GPU performance during this week’s GTC China virtual event. In a keynote, ...Full Article

Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost

An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding ...Full Article

Tesla Preps AI Chip for Autopilot

Auto maker Tesla looks to be disrupting the nascent AI market with the disclosure by company founder Elon Musk that the car maker is developing a new high-end AI ...Full Article

Early NVLink Tests Show GPU Speed Burst

Crunching data is not as big of a problem as moving it around so it can be crunched. The PCI-Express bus that links CPU processors to peripheral accelerators has ...Full Article
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