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While the 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU “Delta” platform with NVSwitch got a lot of airtime during the Ampere launch, it was not the only platform being launched today by NVIDIA. The 4x GPU “Redstone” platform is a smaller NVLink mesh platform that is designed to be a lower-cost option. The NVIDIA A100 “Redstone” HGX platform is important since it is a smaller and less complex version of the HGX A100 platform. The Redstone platform incorporates 4x SXM NVIDIA A100 GPUs onto a PCB. As we saw with the Tesla A100 overview, the new GPUs have 12x NVlinks per GPU. Each NVLink provides 50GB/s of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth for 600GB/s total. Redstone takes those 12 NVLinks and splits them into three groups. Instead of the NVIDIA NVSwitch solution we see on the HGX A100 platform, we get a mesh topology without switching. NVIDIA has offered both switched and non-switched systems for some time. This type of topology, NVIDIA has been using for years and is the basis for many important compute nodes. For ...

 Dell EMC is bringing a new GPU-as-a-Service or GPUaaS offering to the market. Underpinning the GPU hardware, Dell EMC is leveraging software from VMware as well as the Bitfusion acquisition to help drive adoption and utilization of accelerated computing. With the solution, instead of targeting those leading companies that have already deployed an AI or HPC solution, Dell EMC is hoping to capture the next wave of adoption by making the task easier. Dell is using this graphic to frame the conversation. If we think of 14.6% of the market using AI today, they are the early adopters who are leaders in the field. Still, that leaves 85.4% of the market that are not leaders and that Dell hopes to service with their solutions. Dell Brings Turnkey GPUaaS for AI and HPC As part of the Dell Technologies strategy, it is leaning on its VMware integration to bring GPU accelerated AI and HPC to vSphere. One will notice that while the company is saying it is for HPC, this is not for high-p...

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is an enthusiast-class graphics card by NVIDIA, launched in September 2018. Built on the 12 nm process, and based on the TU102 graphics processor, in its TU102-300A-K1-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The TU102 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 754 mm² and 18,600 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked TITAN RTX, which uses the same GPU but has all 4608 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to reach the product's target shader count. It features 4352 shading units, 272 texture mapping units, and 88 ROPs. Also included are 544 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 68 raytracing acceleration cores. NVID...