Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

Post by lumost » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

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> AMD could release a 2x powerful GPGPU tomorrow for half the price and most current NVIDIA users wouldn't care because what good is that if you can't program it?. Correction: Nobody will be able to use the AMD hardware (outside of computer graphics) because everybody has been locked-in with CUDA on Nvidia. They can not even change even if they want to: it is pure madness to reprogram an entire GPGPU software stack e…

> Nobody will be able to use the AMD hardware (outside of computer graphics) because everybody has been locked-in with CUDA on Nvidia. But numpy can be ported. So can pytorch. I don't think the lock-in is that big of an issue. GPUs do only simple things, but do them fast.

Post by thelittleone » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

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I don't like that people downvoted you for asking a question. If someone thinks the question is stupid or not doesn't mean that a downvote is warranted. (nor an upvote, answer the question and move on.) To answer though; it's just a coincidence, as you might already know Nvidia uses famous scientists (especially in the field of electricity) as the names of their microarchitectures. * Volta (Alessandro Volta, inventor…

And even before that there was: * GeForce (for Andrea Geforce, the first to use the color electric green) * Riva (for Jose Riva, the discoverer that you can use TNT to generate electricity.)

Post by ethbro » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:37 PM UTC

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In my experience, Jensen Huang's keynotes are unprofessional in the best possible way. I remember thinking during an entire GTC presentation "Wait, this guy is the CEO?" He seemed like an excited engineer who happened to stumble onto stage.

I thought he was nerdy business man trying to be cool and it was / is cringy, but years ago I saw him talking with TSMC founder on computer history museum and since I think highly of the guy and really appreciate him. There's a dose of genuineness behind him and you can tell.

Post by hodgesrm » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

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The large majority of researchers and business getting into NVidia products doesn't seem to find it that relevant, rather what tools, GPU programming languages and hardware they are able to put their hands on.

It's irrelevant to researchers. Research operates on rapid cycles: prototype, publish, move on. It does impact businesses. It doesn't prevent adoption for e.g. deep learning, but I haven't seen e.g. GPU-based databases reach broad adoption, or many other places where MIMD/SIMD would reduce costs or improve performance. Using classical hardware is clearly cheaper than the business risk and engineering time of relying…

Post by FpUser » Thu, May 14, 2020, 10:54 PM UTC

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If someone thinks the question is stupid or not doesn't mean that a downvote is warranted. (nor an upvote, answer the question and move on.) The type of questions being downvoted sometimes makes me question sanity. In general I believe that downvoting is probably one of the most poisonous thing invented in newsgroups.

downvoting is toxic yea, but look at twitter for what happens when its not a thing, its just as bad if not worse in this direction, comments have no almost no coherency and trolls are incredibly rampant. on sites with downvoting like reddit the problem is somewhat less, but the hivemind effect takes root. theres really not many good solutions right now.