Nvidia Debuts Cloud Server Platform To Unify AI and High-Performance Computing

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.

'Unify AI'

[Rick Schumann]

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

Self driving cars

[110010001000]

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

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

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[cdsparrow]

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.

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[110010001000]

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

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[110010001000]

Yeah, a racist South African. How original.

Confusing marketing

[f00zbll]

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.

Seems unlikely

[q_e_t]

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