@HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia’s Week at the Center of the Tech World

Live from Nvidia’s GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast.  We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot….

@HPCpodcast: The GTC Cornucopia

Last week’s rendition of NVIDIA’s bi-annual GTC extravaganza unveiled a raft of new HPC/AI announcements, the latest public performance of a company in its prime led by a leather-clad CEO generally regarded as a master marketer. Ok, roll your eyes at that gushing statement if you like, but it reflects the sentiment of Wall Street, which pushed NVIDIA stock up 10 percent the day CEO Jensen Huang delivered his GTC keynote, and of most (if not all) in the HPC industry analyst community. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast….

NVIDIA’s Huang to Unveil AI Technologies, Products at Virtual GTC, Nov. 8-11

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 — NVIDIA today announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from AI research and industry leaders. Agenda and registration information can be found here. Huang’s keynote will be livestreamed on Nov. 9 […]

HPC/AI in the Spotlight: Jensen Huang Named to Time Magazine’s Most Influential People List

Estranged royalty, movie stars and Olympic athletes have influence, sure, but if you want to build a list of people with lasting impact then Time magazine got it right when it named Jensen Huang to its list of the 100 most influential people of 2021. The CEO of Nvidia, whose GPUs are highlighted by Time […]

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to Receive Semiconductor Industry’s Noyce Award

WASHINGTON — Aug. 12, 2021 — The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA with a focus on building accelerated computing platforms, is the 2021 recipient of the industry’s Robert N. Noyce Award.   SIA said it presents the Noyce Award annually “in recognition of a leader who has […]