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Nvidia versus Wave: Competition for the datacenter heats up

What Nvidia is doing to Intel, Wave is trying to do to Nvidia, and it might just work We got a look at Nvidia’s DGX2 datacenter accelerator at GTC a few weeks ago and about the same time Wave Computing started dropping hints that their DPU (Dataflow Processing Unit) is about ready to ship in datacenter-ready systems and that we ...

Robert Dow

What Nvidia is doing to Intel, Wave is trying to do to Nvidia, and it might just work We got a look at Nvidia’s DGX2 datacenter accelerator at GTC a few weeks ago and about the same time Wave Computing started dropping hints that their DPU (Dataflow Processing Unit) is about ready to ship in datacenter-ready systems and that we should expect great things when it makes its debut. Nvidia’s DGX-2 (Nvidia)   The Nvidia accelerator is based on the Tesla V100, combining 16 of them into a system tied together with Nvidia’s proprietary NVLink chip to chip interconnect (something
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