Nvidia's Data Center Tech

I have been very excited about Nvidia's potential when it comes to data centre infrastructure. Their GPU (graphics processing units) chips are really useful at accelerating heavy workloads often required in data centre processing. I have watched companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google firing on all cylinders with their cloud businesses so it just made sense that this would knock on to Nvidia's GPU chips.

Earlier this year Nvidia launched a new chip called a DPU (data processing unit). These are specially designed to complement the tasks formed by CPUs (central processing units) and GPUs. The CPUs perform general tasks, the GPUs accelerate that process and the DPU can transfer this data to other components including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

This may all sound very foreign to you, don't worry, it does to me too. If you would like to learn more watch this Nvidia Video where CEO Jensen Huang explains what they are doing.

But you don't have to understand the intricate details of how it all works to know that Nvidia is positioning themselves for data centre dominance. They have already picked up a big cloud client in VMware for these DPUs and I expect more clients to hop on board who we believe to be market leaders in this field.