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Mint
19-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
Nvidia is opening its AI server platform to chip rivals
Amid the gold rush to build data centers and AI models, Nvidia has sold the most sought-after tools, driving triple-digit annual sales growth and turning the company into a $3 trillion market value giant. For the most part, Nvidia sells a 'full-stack AI solution" that includes computer processors, or CPUs, networking equipment, and the AI accelerator, also known as the GPU. It's inside an Nvidia-designed server rack. Together, these components helped to train and serve new AI models. But now Nvidia is taking a significant step toward opening its platform, allowing customers to bring their own CPU or AI chip. It offers the option for future Nvidia racks with, say, Nvidia and Qualcomm chips inside. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the move on Monday at the COMPUTEX trade show in Taiwan. The new system is called NVLink Fusion. 'A tectonic shift is under way: for the first time in decades, data centers must be fundamentally rearchitected—AI is being fused into every computing platform," Huang said. 'NVLink Fusion opens Nvidia's AI platform and rich ecosystem for partners to build specialized AI infrastructures." Nvidia's current top-of-the-line GB200 NVL72 AI server rack system includes Nvidia Grace CPUs and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Initial NVLink Fusion AI chip partners include MediaTek, Marvell, and AIchip. Fujitsu and Qualcomm are the initial CPU partners. 'With the ability to connect our custom processors to Nvidia's rack scale architecture, we're advancing our vision of high-performance, energy-efficient computing to the data center," Qualcomm Technologies CEO Cristiano Amon said in a press release. The open system means large cloud providers, which were locked out of Nvidia's ecosystem when using their own custom chips, can now mix their custom chips with Nvidia's sought-after technology. For Nvidia, it means the potential to fill more data centers with its server platform and to drive more revenue. There's one catch: Broadcom, which makes many of the custom AI chips for large tech companies, wasn't on Nvidia's initial partner list, though the company said more partners could be added in the future.
Associated Press
19-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Just In Time for Nvidia's GTC, Quobyte Launches ARM Support
Quobyte, a leading provider of high-performance AI storage solutions, takes the next step in continuing to provide unmatched production-ready scalability and simplicity across any infrastructure. SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Quobyte, the world's easiest parallel file system, expanded its product offering to include support for the ARM architecture. Effective immediately, the new ARM platforms can be used as they are or added to existing Quobyte x86 based clusters in a mixed environment, thereby preserving existing investments customers have made in their clusters while leveraging new technology advances. Supported processors include Nvidia Grace, Ampere CPUs, and the AWS Graviton. Quobyte is proud to extend its support to popular processor choices in AI applications. The importance of integrating digital and physical technologies to address critical data challenges will grow. The ARM architecture has emerged as a popular choice for AI applications driven by Nvidia's Grace architecture. It will deliver the same high performance as Quobyte's x86 offering as well as a complete set of features including RDMA support. Quobyte's ARM packages support Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 24.04. This will make Quobyte clusters even more scalable for AI applications. Moreover, they can be added with running clusters for a completely non-disruptive operation. As digital footprints grow for individuals and industries alike, storage solutions must keep pace. Quobyte partners with leaders in heavily data-reliant industries from AI and life sciences to banking and finance. ARM servers help with AI workloads when it comes to hypercomputing, an asset that will grow as industries processing terabytes and petrabytes of data leave cloud storage behind in favor of personally controlled storage. As more industries seek to harness the benefits of deep learning on big data, storage solutions like Quobyte offering horizontal scaling will enable AI training workloads at high speed without sacrificing reliability. About Quobyte: Quobyte is a leader in software-defined storage, delivering a scalable, flexible, and robust infrastructure that empowers organizations to handle rapid data growth. With over a decade of stability, lean operations, and innovative technology, Quobyte operates profitably, helping customers gain a decisive edge in a data-driven world.
