Nvidia trains Pacman to beat Pacman
Published in AI
Monday, 25 May 2020 11:55

Nvidia trains Pacman to beat Pacman


Army of AI managed it

Nvidia built an army of AI routines, dubbed GameGAN (short for "generative adversarial networks"), trained to build a playable Pacman game from scratch.

Next-gen consumer GPUs rumored to launch in September
Published in Graphics


From both Nvidia and AMD

According to a report from Digitimes, next-gen consumer graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD could launch in September.

Nvidia surprises Wall Street
Published in News
Friday, 22 May 2020 11:51

Nvidia surprises Wall Street


Data centres prop up second quarter

Nvidia forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts’ estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in the data centres that power the shift to working remotely because of the new coronavirus outbreak.

Nvidia launches Mellanox ConnectX-6Lx SmartNIC
Published in Network


To meet growth in enterprise and cloud scale-out workloads.

ConnectX-6 Lx, the 11th generation product in the ConnectX family, is designed to meet the needs of modern data centers, where 25Gb/s connections are becoming standard for handling demanding workflows, such as enterprise applications, AI and real-time analytics.

Nvidia DGX A100 AI System runs on AMD EPYC Rome CPU
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Two AMD EPYC 7742 64-core/128-thread CPUs

At its digital GPU Technology Conference 2020 which kicked off today, Nvidia officially announced the new Amper architecture based GA100 GPU, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU which will be a part of the DGX A100 AI System, and it appears that that same system will be powered by none other than two AMD EPYC CPUs.

Nvidia unveils the A100 Tensor Core GPU
Published in AI
Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:18

Nvidia unveils the A100 Tensor Core GPU


GPU compute beast for DGX A100 AI system

The focus of the GTC 2020 was Nvidia's new A100 Tensor Core GPU, which is based on the new Ampere architecture GA100 GPU, and will be a part of Nvidia's new DGX A100 AI system. As a direct successor of the V100 accelerator, the A100 will bring both significant compute performance improvements and new features. 

Nvidia officially unveils the Ampere-based GA100 GPU
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54 billion transistors for 128 SMs or 8,192 CUDA cores and more

Nvidia GTC 2020 has kicked off and, as expected, we got to see the new Amper-architecture with GA100 GPU and A100 Tensor Core GPU in full details.

Supermicro releases two AI systems
Published in News
Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:04

Supermicro releases two AI systems


Uses Nvidia HGX technology with A100 Tensor Core GPUs

Supermicro has released two new systems designed for artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning applications that leverage the third-generation Nvidia HGX technology with the new Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPUs across the company’s broad portfolio of 1U, 2U, 4U and 10U GPU servers.

Tyan releases Nvidia GPU-based servers
Published in Network


For computer intensive workloads

Tyan has launched the latest GPU server platforms that support the Nvidia V100S Tensor Core and Nvidia T4 GPUs for a wide variety of compute-intensive workloads including AI training, inference, and supercomputing uses.

Nvidia GA100 is a high-performance AI
Published in Graphics
Friday, 08 May 2020 10:36

Nvidia GA100 is a high-performance AI


TSMC 7nm, next-gen Hopper 5nm

There have been rumors for quite some time about the Nvidia Ampere and the manufacturing nod. Nvidia’s first AI-based solution comes from TSMC, while some GPUs will be manufactured by Samsung too.