Nvidia shows signs in [2020]

[DavidGraham]

GTC has been replaced by online event https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/02/gtc-san-jose-online-event/

If they are so keen on broadcasting then that means they are indeed announcing Ampere. Which is what matters.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Nvidia acquires data storage and management platform SwiftStack

Nvidia today announced that it has acquired SwiftStack, a software-centric data storage and management platform that supports public cloud, on-premises and edge deployments.

The company’s recent launches focused on improving its support for AI, high-performance computing and accelerated computing workloads, which is surely what Nvidia is most interested in here.

“Building AI supercomputers is exciting to the entire SwiftStack team,” says the company’s co-founder and CPO Joe Arnold in today’s announcement. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to work with the talented folks at NVIDIA and look forward to contributing to its world-leading accelerated computing solutions.”
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SwiftStack lists the likes of PayPal, Rogers, data center provider DC Blox, Snapfish and Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent company) on its customer page. Nvidia, too, is a customer.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/05/nvidia-acquires-data-storage-and-management-platform-swiftstack/

 

[CarstenS]

GTC Livestream cancelled, will be news bits instead.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-gtc-news-to-be-shared-on-march-24-followed-by-investor-cal

Chances of Ampere being introduced in this way? IMHO low.

 

[A1xLLcqAgt0qc2RyMz0y]

GTC Livestream cancelled, will be news bits instead.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-gtc-news-to-be-shared-on-march-24-followed-by-investor-cal

Chances of Ampere being introduced in this way? IMHO low.

Seems like the chances are just the same as before.

The company will, instead, issue on Tuesday, March 24, news announcements that had been scheduled to be shared in the keynote.

Whatever they were going to announce in the keynote will now be issued in the news announcement.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-gtc-news-shared-march-203010516.html

 

[CarstenS]

Yeah, that's what I meant by news bits. But if you were a company, would you want your next flagship product go out on such brittle ground? Especially with the heated up competition in ML accelerators, with your probable switch to a new production node and with possible introduction of a new, not so easily digestible architecture?

 

[Ryan Smith]

GTC Livestream cancelled, will be news bits instead.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-gtc-news-to-be-shared-on-march-24-followed-by-investor-cal

Chances of Ampere being introduced in this way? IMHO low.

At this point I'm not expecting serious news about a new architecture. Maybe a teaser or roadmap for later in the year. But I welcome Jensen to surprise me.

 

[JoeJ]

Got his email today, so GTC is not totally cancelled, but transformed into something different.
Probably just no good time to announce anything for anybody.

INTRODUCING GTC DIGITAL

NVIDIA has shifted GTC 2020 to an online event due to the growing concern over the coronavirus.

GTC Digital delivers all the great training, research, insights, and direct access to the brilliant minds you’ve come to expect from the GPU Technology Conference—now online.

Best of all, registration for GTC Digital is free*. Register today and start building your interest list.

EVERYTHING YOU’D EXPECT FROM GTC, NOW ONLINE

Join our live webinars, training, and Connect with the Experts sessions starting Wednesday, March 25. The schedule will be released soon. You can also choose from a library of talks, panels, research posters, and demos that you can view on your own schedule, at your own pace. New on-demand content will be announced every Thursday starting March 26.

LIVE AND ON-DEMAND TALKS
Hear live talks and Q&A sessions, and hundreds of on-demand recordings on a wide range of topics and industries.

DEMOS AND POSTERS
Explore posters from global researchers and demos from NVIDIA showcasing cutting-edge technology.

CONNECT WITH THE EXPERTS
Get one-on-one time with NVIDIA engineers and researchers during scheduled online “office hours.”

 

[Kaotik]

Got his email today, so GTC is not totally cancelled, but transformed into something different.
Probably just no good time to announce anything for anybody.

It got changed into GTC Digital late last week I think, and now (yesterday or the day before) they've announced that Jensen's online keynote has been cancelled and will be replaced by news announcements and investor conference call

 

[Ryan Smith]

It got changed into GTC Digital late last week I think, and now (yesterday or the day before) they've announced that Jensen's online keynote has been cancelled and will be replaced by news announcements and investor conference call

And now the announcements have been scrubbed entirely. NVIDIA will be taking a mulligan at a to-be-determined date in the future.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/16/gtc-update/

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Nvidia shares research into gaze tracking for HMDs

It seems like Nvidia wants to get in on the hardware side of things to support its VRS implementations on screens and in HMDs. Researchers working for the green team have recently published a paper with gaze-sensing HMD prototype designs and test results. Importantly, as well as designing a new low-power, accurate, low latency, and light weight solution, the scientists say the prototype hardware is cheap to make using commonly available components.

Nvidia's gaze-sensing LEDs for head mounted displays paper (PDF) was published a few days ago and is very detailed in its proposition - but in essence the researchers modified existing HMDs by exploiting the light emitting and sensing properties of LEDs.

While it all might sound complex to non-scientists and non-engineers, the Nvidia researchers assert that their design is "the simplest gaze-detecting design to date". Nvidia's small low cost solution is said to be ideal for HMDs. Nevertheless, there is still work to do on wrinkles in the system. The biggest issues are currently regarding user blinks, and the tuning of tracking accuracy and on its relationship with latency.

https://hexus.net/ce/news/audio-visual/140989-nvidia-shares-research-gaze-tracking-hmds/

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 20 series continues to lure gamers with real-time hardware ray tracing and enjoys big gains in Steam's latest hardware survey
April 4, 2020

The top eight video cards by usage in terms of percentage share change are all from Nvidia and five of them are GeForce RTX 20 series cards. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 led the pack with +0.53% change.

The popular GeForce RTX 2060 is not necessarily the first choice for gamers who want to enjoy hardware-based ray tracing in their favorite titles, with both the GeForce RTX 2070 and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER also enjoying strong upward movement for the month. In fact, consumers seem to prefer the advantages SUPER cards bring over their vanilla counterparts, with the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER joining the top eight movers for the month.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidi...-Steam-s-latest-hardware-survey.459880.0.html

 

[Deleted member 2197]

NVIDIA Makes Remote Desktop Accessible to GeForce Cards
April 5, 2020

As part of NVIDIA's DesignWorks collection, it's possible to perform certain tasks remotely on a remote computer. This allows a user to perform a complex 3D rendering or similar from a less potent workstation.

Until now, this was only possible with the Quadro cards, which are of course considerably more expensive and therefore less common compared to the GeForce models. Due to the current corona crisis, however, many developers and 3D designers are increasingly working out of the home office and not always there is correspondingly strong hardware in the area. To provide more possibilities and hardware, NVIDIA is now opening the Remote Desktop to GeForce cards.

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.p...-desktop-fuer-geforce-karten-zugaenglich.html

DesignWorks link:
https://developer.nvidia.com/design...&ranSiteID=a1LgFw09t88-2cnZ6fy2yHX9UMl9obbAng

 

[Clukos]

https://www.techpowerup.com/266224/...-2020-keynote-under-get-amped-teaser-may-14th

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/

Seems like the event is still happening

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Nvidia acquires Cumulus Networks
May 4, 2020

Nvidia today announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open-source-centric company that specializes in helping enterprises optimize their data center networking stack. Cumulus offers both its own Linux distribution for network switches, as well as tools for managing network operations. With Cumulus Express, the company also offers a hardware solution in the form of its own data center switch.

Having both Cumulus and Mellanox in its stable will give Nvidia virtually all the tools it needs to help enterprises and cloud providers build out their high-performance computing and AI workloads in their data centers. While you may mostly think about Nvidia because of its graphics cards, the company has a sizable data center group, which delivered close to $1 billion in revenue in the last quarter, up 43% from a year ago. In comparison, Nvidia's revenue from gaming was just under $1.5 billion.

"With Cumulus, NVIDIA can innovate and optimize across the entire networking stack from chips and systems to software including analytics like Cumulus NetQ, delivering great performance and value to customers," writes Katz. "This open networking platform is extensible and allows enterprise and cloud-scale data centers full control over their operations."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-acquires-cumulus-networks-171214276.html

 

[Davros]

Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/15/nvidia_shareholder_complaint/

 

[del42sa]

Nvidia ditch Tesla brand

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-allegedly-drops-tesla-brand

 

[Deleted member 2197]

May 14, 2020

This is a marriage of a GPU and NIC all in a single PCIe card. The card features a NVIDIA A100 Ampere-based GPU package along with a Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx NIC. That means one can get 200Gbps of networking plus a GPU on a single card.
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The impact of the NVIDIA EGX A100 is not saving a PCIe slot. Instead, it is NVIDIA moving in a direction of CPU offload. The vision of the SmartNIC capabilities is that the EGX A100 can be connected to the network via Infiniband or Ethernet. Another option is that one can use Infiniband for GPU-to-GPU communication and Ethernet to get data from NVMeoF storage. That data can then be securely moved to the onboard NVIDIA A100 GPU. That GPU can do processing it needs then send data back out over the network, without host CPU intervention.
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If one looks at what NVIDIA is doing with this product, it is essentially the first step in disaggregating the x86-based CPU servers from GPU compute. While these cards are likely still to be used in PCIe slots in standard servers, the EGX A100 gives an opportunity to show real bypass of the host system.

https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-egx-a100-launched-tesla-plus-mellanox-vision/

 

[Deleted member 2197]

NVIDIA Posts Phenomenal Quarter Amidst COVID Slowdown, Data Center Tops $1 Billion For The First Time

NVIDIA just posted an incredible first quarter for fiscal year 2021 amidst all this coronavirus-induced uncertainty with revenue up 39% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter. The company's data center ventures topped $1 billion in revenue for the first time ...

NVIDIA Q1 FY2021 results: GAAP EPS of $1.47 on revenue of 3.08 billion, up 160% Y/Y and 39% Y/Y respectively, beats Wall Street estimates

Very few companies have been able to maintain their momentum in what is essentially a global economic halt as well as a pandemic. Even less managed to post strong results that beat Wall Street estimates. NVIDIA is a seasonal business and their posted quarter comfortably beats the non-COVID comparable-quarter of Q2 FY2020 from last year - which is phenomenal.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-posts-phenomenal-quarter-amidst-covid-slowdown-data-center-tops-1-billion-for-the-first-time/

 

[Man from Atlantis]

 

[manux]

I guess we as gamers ended up where it all started. It's a giant circle or wheel of time if you will. Maybe one day we can just describe ideas or show some random clips to AI and we will get monstrous dream like hallucinated weird games.

Nvidia trained AI to create a playable pacman game. Only clips of real pacman game were used in learning. Result is a playable pacman game that has "no engine", just trained model.