As Nvidia Corp.‘s annual developer conference GTC kicked off this week in San Jose, the company made its usual flurry of product announcements, the highlight of which was the long-awaited Blackwell platform. One might look at Blackwell as a graphics processing unit, but in reality, it’s more than that, hence the “platform” descriptor.
Nvidia Corp. kicks off its annual GPU Technology Conference Monday in San Jose. After five years of being virtual, the nearly weeklong event returns to an in-person format, and the timing could not be better. This is arguably the most important GTC in history. What started as a vendor-specific show attended by gamers and data scientists exploded into the world’s largest artificial intelligence-centric industry event.
Everywhere we look these days, data-intensive applications are increasing at breakneck speed. One of the companies at the center of this development is Nvidia Corp., which has been riding high of late because of the chips it makes to power artificial intelligence.
Nvidia Corp.‘s virtual GTC 2023 conference running this week has almost too many announcements to digest, and they go well beyond its signature graphics processing units. But after sifting through many pre-briefings for GTC 2023, here’s are what I think are the top five announcements, plus one honorable mention.
Nvidia Inc. is positioning its open DOCA software framework as the fastest and easiest way to speed up the development and performance of data processing unit applications.
DOCA is a software development kit for Nvidia BlueField DPUs (pictured). For those not familiar with BlueField, it provides data center infrastructure-on-a-chip, optimized for high-performance enterprise and cloud computing. Because DOCA is tied to BlueField, there’s a misconception that it’s closed and proprietary.