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Hard to wrap my mind around what a "data center software platform" means in practice. Isn't that covered by things like AWS and Azure?
by wffurr 6y ago
Hard to wrap my mind around what a "data center software platform" means in practice. Isn't that covered by things like AWS and Azure?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoGo down a layer or two. What platform do you want for the actual hardware in a data center that is a part of AWS or Azure?
- ramses0 6y agoOwn NVidia GPU's. Own ARM chips. Connect ARM chips to NVidia GPU's in big racks of racks connected to power. ARM is effectively embarrassingly parallel, low-power compute, and GPU's are parallel high-power compute. If NVidia got into datacenter design (with ARM+GPU), dropped K8S+S3+Postgres onto it, charged $1999.95/mo for access, what could they deliver to customers? What would a vertically integrated datacenter look like where you are the designer + manufacturer for everything from the concrete up?
- paulmd 6y ago> What would a vertically integrated datacenter look like where you are the designer + manufacturer for everything from the concrete up? A lot like AWS, Oracle Cloud, and soon to be Google Cloud and Azure? people are losing their shit but this isn't even that novel lol, quite a few other players already own their full stack.
- pathseeker 6y agoNone of those companies make their CPUs or GPUs.
- Keyframe 6y agoAWS Graviton, although an arm.. Google TPU and affinity for experiments like with POWER.. microsoft hiring people with custom cpu/soc experience (and they have experience with sq1/snapdragon)
- cavisne 6y agoI read it as a software platform for programming in a data centre with nvidia's stack. Ie a library thats optimized to drive a bunch of hosts with ARM cores, strapped to nvidia gpu's, connected by mellanox interconnects. Sell it a a unit to the public clouds for a massive markup, or maybe offer on their own cloud for an unbeatably low cost.
- klelatti 6y agoMy guess would be tight software integration between Nvidia Arm CPUs and Nvidia GPUs that would not be available to other Arm vendors or users of Nvidia GPUs with Intel CPUs. CUDA provides software lock-in to Nvidia GPUs. This would provide software lock in to the combined Nvidia Arm / Nvidia GPU platform.