[News] NVIDIA goes all-in with AI for the 'goodness of mankind'

[StyM]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59276...ind/index.html

NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage as usual, saying: "At no time in the history of computing have such exciting developments been happening, and such incredible forces in computing been affecting our future. What technology increases in complexity by a factor of 350 in five years? We don't know any. What algorithm increases in complexity by a factor of 10? We don't know any. We are moving faster than Moore's Law". Huang unveiled NVIDIA's new TensorRT 3, which is a new inferencing platform that the company claims allowed a previously-trained DNN to run in a production environment capable of going through 45,000 images per second. This is all powered by the HGX server that has 8 x Tesla V100 accelerators. The big difference here is that NVIDIA's HGX server consumes 3kW to do this with the 8 x Tesla V100 accelerators, but compared to the traditional CPU-based platform that rocks 160 dual-CPU servers, which draws 65kW... making NVIDIA's GPU-based solution 2066% more power efficient. We can see why NVIDIA is pushing into the AI and DNN markets so hard.

[Sparky]

For the good of mankind.

[madmaxx]

^^ That's about it right there. The only thing JHH/nVidia care about humanity, is that they keep paying inflated prices for their products.

[alpha0ne]

^^ That's about it right there. The only thing JHH/nVidia care about humanity, is that they keep paying inflated prices for their products.

You are NOT a consumer but a resource to be bled

[iddqd]

Not sure how much goodness would come of it. If anything, it seems like AI would be a great tool for the rich to oppress the poor - even more cost-efficiently than ever before! The Chinese, for example, already use AI to spy on their netizens more cheaply.

[madmaxx]

You are NOT a consumer but a resource to be bled

On the contrary, I am a consumer. A mildly educated 1.

Fools and their money are easily parted.

[Tim]

On the contrary, I am a consumer. A mildly educated 1.

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Some people do have the money and don't mind spending it on quality. Doesn't make you a fool, just makes you well off. For those who are not so well off there are plenty of options in the Nvidia or AMD line-up.

I for one have spend anywhere between a hundred bucks and eight hundred bucks on nvidia cards over the last 16 years and I've never been let down.

Price increase has been wildly exaggerated and if you look at the history of prices we're actually pretty damn lucky right now. Still not satisfied? Blame AMD for mediocre products that don't compete.