Nvidia releases a recipe to make GPU computing ubiquitous in data centers VentureBeat AI

Nvidia wants its graphics processing units (GPUs) to handle the artificial intelligence computing and other heavy-duty parallel processing tasks in giant data centers. To that end, the company is launching a program that makes it easy for its big manufacturing partners to package its GPUs in AI supercomputers. Nvidia HGX is a kind of starter recipe for original design manufacturers (ODMs) -- Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta, and Wistron -- to package GPUs in data center computers, said Ian Buck, general manager of accelerated computing at Nvidia, in an interview with VentureBeat. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is announcing HGX at the Computex tech trade show in Taiwan today. HGX has already been used as the basis for the Microsoft Project Olympus initiative, Facebook's Big Basin systems, and Nvidia DGX-1TM AI supercomputers.