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Nvidia Debuts Cloud Server Platform To Unify AI and High-Performance Computing (siliconangle.com)

Hoping to maintain the high ground in AI and high-performance computing, Nvidia late Tuesday debuted a new computing architecture that it claims will unify both fast-growing areas of the industry. From a report: The announcement of the HGX-2 cloud-server platform, made by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang at its GPU Technology Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, is aimed at many new applications that combine AI and HPC. "We believe the future requires a unified platform for AI and high-performance computing," Paresh Kharya, product marketing manager for Nvidiaâ(TM)s accelerated-computing group, said during a press call Tuesday.

Others agree. "I think that AI will revolutionize HPC," Karl Freund, a senior analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, told SiliconANGLE. "I suspect many supercomputing centers will deploy HGX2 as it can add dramatic computational capacity for both HPC and AI." More specifically, the new architecture enables applications involving scientific computing and simulations, such as weather forecasting, as well as both training and running of AI models such as deep learning neural networks, for jobs such as image and speech recognition and navigation for self-driving cars.

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  1. 'Unify AI' by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

    You mean 'unify the pseudo-intelligence garbage they pass off as AI'? Great, just what the world needs: standardized garbage.

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  3. Self driving cars by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

    Speaking of self-driving cars: another Tesla autopilot crash today: https://twitter.com/LBPD_PIO_4...

    Hit a parked police SUV. Keep on beta testing your stuff, Tesla. Don't forget to complain about the "shorts".

    1. Re:Self driving cars by cdsparrow · · Score: 2

      I bet it is actually AI. The car likes to drive fast and knows the cops give out tickets. Therefore, take the cop out before he can ticket you.

    2. Re:Self driving cars by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Didn't think of that. Maybe it was part of the latest firmware update that fixed the braking problem.

    3. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1
    4. Re:Self driving cars by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      Yeah, a racist South African. How original.

    5. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Still working your own short, I see.

    6. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Hope Tesla invents a gas chamber with autopilot

    7. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except he didn't, at all. He responded to a question about free press and powerful people with the words "Who do you think owns the press?". That's it. No mention of Jews anywhere, just "powerful people".

      That didn't stop the local Nazis piling on in the replies, of course. They brought their own reinterpretations to the party.

    8. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    9. Re:Self driving cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  4. Confusing marketing by f00zbll · · Score: 1

    NVidia already announced the DGX-2 appliance a few weeks back. Now they announce HGX-2, which apparently is the design for companies that want to build their own AI cloud. But I have to ask, given the recent shortage of chips, how would any third party build their own DGX-2 from the reference design if they can't get the chips? Given the memory shortage, it's not like building your own DGX-2 for a AI cloud is going to be more efficient than just buying DGX-2 from Nvidia.

  5. Seems unlikely by q_e_t · · Score: 1

    It seems unlikely that AI will change bread-and-butter HPC applications such as CFD and ab-initio chemistry for a while.

  6. Disagreements do not lead to progress by Nicole+Evans · · Score: 0

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