LogTrim8 hours ago
The interesting part is that this is less "CUDA now runs on RISC-V" and more "Nvidia is defining what a CUDA-capable RISC-V server has to look like."
That could end up being a pretty influential de facto server profile for the architecture.
nxobject3 hours ago
Beyond the significant PCI-e requirements, I'm tickled pink that many of the server platform requirements are "do what x86 does"... ACPI, UEFI, a TPM. I hope they do a better job with standards compliance than some of the shadier Wintel OEMs!
classichasclass3 hours ago
And Nvidia is big enough that they could impose some order on the ecosystem that the ecosystem so far has either been unable or unwilling to impose on itself. The wild west of one-offs can continue to make their application-specific designs while everyone else will presumably benefit from a reasonably standardized platform.
nozzlegear10 hours ago
All these AI do is eat hot chip and lie
carabiner10 hours ago
Any fab born after 2005
camel-cdr10 hours ago
boredatoms7 hours ago
When does bigsky ship?
djmips8 hours ago
hot chips. hot planet.
varispeed7 hours ago
Just make more RAM.
einpoklum6 hours ago
CUDA is proprietary technology, guarded by patents and mostly closed-source. And its originator, NVIDIA, while being a member of the Khronos consortium, and technically supporting OpenCL, makes it much more difficult for you to do anything in OpenCL than in CUDA - even though it is sometimes almosy zero effort to enable some OpenCL equivalent (e.g. : Half-precision types. They exist in CUDA; in OpenCL on NVIDIA - you can't have them).
So, live with CUDA on other hardware? No thank you.
Ozzie-D2 hours ago
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bizstrategy105 hours ago
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