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It's tacky but I don't think they are in any way implying an endorsement. Tesla, Ampere, Pascal, Volta, Kelvin, Turing (and quite a few more I can't remember) a
by gruturo 3y ago
It's tacky but I don't think they are in any way implying an endorsement. Tesla, Ampere, Pascal, Volta, Kelvin, Turing (and quite a few more I can't remember) are all Nvidia architecture names, and are all named after historically important scientists (well, I have my reservations about Kelvin, but that's more personal opinion)
- toth 3y agoOff topic, but I have to ask. What do you have against Kelvin?
- mk_stjames 3y agoMaybe they are a descendant of William Rankine. Maybe there is an epic 150-year Scottish Baron family feud still going.
- HWR_14 3y agoMy guess is that Gruturo is Irish or is of Irish descent. Kelvin took public stances against the independence (or "home rule") of Ireland.
- mk_stjames 3y agoFor Nvidia architectures it wasn't 'Kelvin', it was 'Kepler', as in Johannes Kepler the astronomer.
- johntb86 3y agoKelvin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) ) was an architecture of theirs that was released in 2001.
- jsheard 3y agoI think they only started using the scientist codenames publicly starting from Tesla, but yeah they've used them internally almost since the founding of the company. Early on there was Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine and Curie, then the well-known Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, etc.
- mk_stjames 3y agoOh wow; I did not realize their architecture naming scheme even went back that far. That was their first one. The earliest I remembered hearing them call out the name was Tesla. For other's reference, nvidia arch's listed on wikipedia as follows in order: Kelvin, Rankine, Curie, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, Lovelace + Hopper