How Supercomputers Help To Create The Next Generation of Fully Integrated Data Centres

"Data centre is an asset that needs to be protected"- Michael Kagan, CTO of NVIDIA On the first day of the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, Jensen Huang, founder of NVIDIA revealed the company's three-year DPU roadmap that featured the new NVIDIA BlueField-2 family of DPUs and NVIDIA DOCA software development kit for building applications on DPU-accelerated data centre infrastructure services. Michael Kagan, CTO of NVIDIA recently in a talk, explained the next generation of fully integrated data centres and how supercomputers and edge AI helps in augmenting such initiatives. Kagan stated that the state-of-the-art technologies from both NVIDIA and Mellanox created a great opportunity to build a new class of computers, i.e. the fully-integrated cloud data centres that are designed to handle the workload of the 21st century. Historically, servers were the unit of computing, But eventually, Moore's law has slowed down as the performance of CPUs could not keep up the workload demands. According to Kagan, with the revolution of Cloud AI and edge computing, instead of a single server, the entire data centre has become the new unit of computing designed to handle parallel workloads.