NVIDIA expands portfolio

NVIDIA Introduces New Family of BlueField DPUs to Bring Breakthrough Networking, Storage and Security Performance to Every Data Center

●      Data processing unit (DPU) — NVIDIA today announced a new kind of processor -- supported by DOCA, a novel data-center-infrastructure-on-a-chip architecture that enables breakthrough networking, storage and security performance. 

●     Widespread Adoption of NVIDIA DPUs — Leading server manufacturers worldwide -- including ASUS, Atos, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, H3C, Inspur, Lenovo, Quanta/QCT  and Supermicro -- have plans to integrate NVIDIA DPUs into their enterprise server offerings.

●      NVIDIA DOCA Software Development Kit — The new NVIDIA DOCA SDK enables developers to build applications on DPU-accelerated data center infrastructure services, much like the NVIDIA CUDA® programming model enables developers to build GPU-accelerated applications.  DOCA provides developers a comprehensive, open platform for building software-defined, hardware-accelerated networking, storage, security and management applications running on the BlueField family of DPUs.

Global Technology Leaders Adopt NVIDIA EGX Edge AI Platform to Infuse Intelligence at the Edge of Every Business

●      NVIDIA EGX AI platform —  Hundreds of Vision AI, 5G, CloudRAN, Security and Networking companies team with leading infrastructure providers to use NVIDIA EGX to deliver Edge AI to every industry

●     Optimized AI Software for Edge and Data Center — At the heart of the EGX platform is an optimized AI software stack available on NVIDIA NGC™, a software catalog offering a range of industry-specific AI toolkits and pre-trained models to make it easier to build and deploy AI applications on NVIDIA-Certified systems™.

●      Deploy and Manage EGX Servers Anywhere —  To simplify and secure the deployment and management of AI applications and models on these servers at scale, NVIDIA announced an early access program for a new service called NVIDIA Fleet Command™. This hybrid cloud platform combines the security and real-time processing capabilities of edge computing with the remote management and ease of software-as-a-service.

NVIDIA Announces Ready-Made NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs 

●     Ready-Made AI Supercomputers  —  NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, the world’s first turnkey AI infrastructure, making it possible for organizations to install incredibly powerful AI supercomputers with extraordinary speed — in many cases in just a few weeks’ time. 

●     World-Leading Infrastructure for AI Innovation — The DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise was developed through years of research and development in creating the world’s most advanced AI system to power NVIDIA’s own engineering in automotive, healthcare, conversational AI, recommender systems, data science and computer graphics. 

●      Fully Integrated AI Deployments Across Systems to Software —  From customized capacity planning and data center design services to application performance testing and developer operations training, the DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise provides the fastest path to AI innovation at scale. Each DGX SuperPOD is fully racked, stacked and configured by NVIDIA-Certified partners.

NVIDIA Announces Cloud-AI Video-Streaming Platform

●      NVIDIA Maxine AI Platform —  The GPU-Accelerated AI platform, NVIDIA Maxine, enables Video-Conference providers to vastly improve streaming quality and offer AI-powered features including Super Resolution, Gaze Correction and Live Captions

●     Breakthrough AI Efficiency Slashes Bandwidth to Boost Call Quality — The Maxine platform dramatically reduces how much bandwidth is required for video calls. Instead of streaming the entire screen of pixels, the AI software analyzes the key facial points of each person on a call and then intelligently re-animates the face in the video on the other side. This makes it possible to stream video with far less data flowing back and forth across the internet. 

●      AI Features Improve Video Conferencing Experiences—  New breakthroughs by NVIDIA researchers that will be included in Maxine make video conferencing feel more like face-to-face conversation. Video conference service providers will be able to take advantage of NVIDIA research in GANs, or generative adversarial networks, to offer a variety of new features like face alignment, animated avatars or integrate virtual assistants.

NVIDIA AI on Microsoft Azure Machine Learning to Power Grammar Suggestions in Microsoft Editor for Word

●      Word Online —  Microsoft is putting an AI-powered grammar editor at the fingertips of millions of people. Microsoft’s Editor in Word online can now tap into NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, ONNX Runtime and Azure Machine Learning to deliver a host of smart experiences coming to Office productivity apps. 

●     Office Productivity with AI — Users of Microsoft Office productivity apps will experience the magic of AI. New, time-saving experiences will include real-time grammar suggestions, question-answering within documents — think Bing search for documents — and predictive text to help complete sentences. 

●      High-Performance Inference with Triton on Azure Machine Learning —  The NVIDIA Triton and ONNX Runtime stack in Azure Machine Learning deliver scalable high-performance inferencing. Azure Machine Learning users can take advantage of Triton’s support for multiple frameworks, real-time, batch and streaming inferencing, dynamic batching and concurrent execution.