… While Dell has major product offerings across a multitude of client and server segments, in a sign of the times and of where Dell’s chief priorities lie, the first day of the show was all about AI, specifically the ecosystem Dell is building on top of NVIDIA’s hardware and AI Factory model. …
… As such, both OS configurations are going to ship with a similar AMD software stack on top. The focal point for this AMD software ecosystem will be the AMD Ryzen AI Development Center. …
… At present the most powerful options for local, large memory set AI development in the Windows ecosystem are systems based on AMD’s Ryzen AI Max chips. …
… To that end, it is announcing an ecosystem to not just have a chip, but a cluster architecture. That matters because a lot of today’s AI infrastructure discussion is no longer just about peak accelerator TOPS or FLOPS. …
AI Workstation Looking at the state of the NVIDIA GB10 ecosystem several months down the line, there are a couple of things that have continued to surprise us. …
… As a result, the NIC is connected to a pair of x4 ports. This provides the same aggregate bandwidth as an x8 connection, but it imposes network topology restrictions due to the NIC appearing to the rest of the system as four network interfaces. …