iTWire Tuesday, 13 April 2021 03:01 Nvidia announces data centre CPU and much more
Shares Nvidia s new Grace CPU
As usual, Nvidia had a raft of product announcements ready for its annual GTC conference which started today. Among the standouts were the Grace data centre CPU, a next-generation BlueField DPU, Omniverse Enterprise for 3D collaboration, and updates to the company s Drive platform.
Grace – named after computing pioneer Grace Hopper – is Nvidia s first data centre CPU, designed for extremely large-scale AI and HPC workloads.
Model sizes are doubling every 2.5 months, said Nvidia senior director of accelerated computing Paresh Kharya, pointing to the way the GPT-3 model uses 175 billion parameters. This suggests 100 trillion parameter models will exist by 2023.
CakeBoxx releases Global Vaccine Distribution Containers
CakeBoxx Technologies, the US company famed for the two-piece CakeBoxx container and other innovative transportation products has announced availability of the Global Vaccine Distribution Container through a partnership with industry leader in refrigerated containers, Qingdao CIMC Special Reefer Co., Ltd (QCSC).
The ISO 20ft standard form factor special reefer container uses a Thermo King Deep Freezer unit and is designed for the ultra-low internal temperatures down to -70°C required for the transportation and storage of various medical vaccines. Notably this includes some of the high-profile vaccines developed to combat the COVID-19 Coronavirus, that are currently in heavy demand.