The Next Platform

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Multi-GPU Shared Memory via Automatic Optimization of Fine-Grained Transfers

Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...

AI’s workhorse: What is a GPU? How does it work? | Explained

When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...
Virtualization Review

What GPU You Really Need for AI Workloads

GPU memory (VRAM) is the critical limiting factor that determines which AI models you can run, not GPU performance. Total VRAM requirements are typically 1.2-1.5x the model size due to weights, KV ...