https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/05/29/gtc-taiwan-keynote/…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announces HGX-2, allowing server manufacturers to build more powerful systems for the world’s largest industries…
…GPUs are at the center of a computing ecosystem poised to transform multi-trillion-dollar industries around the world, Huang said. He described a string of breakthroughs in materials science, energy, and medicine that are just within reach with the addition of more computing power.
“Computing demand is greater than ever, so more than ever, we need this computing performance to continue to extend, we need to extend Moore’s law,” Huang told a packed house of more than 2,000 technologists, developers, researchers, government officials and media in Taipei. GTC Taiwan is the second of seven AI conferences NVIDIA will be holding in key tech centers this year…
Huang detailed a “Cambrian explosion” of technologies driven by GPU-powered deep learning. In less than a decade, the computing power of GPUs has grown 20x — representing growth of 1.7x per year, far outstripping Moore’s law, Huang said.
But demand for that power is “growing, not slowing,” thanks to AI, Huang said. “Before this time, software was written by humans and software engineers can only write so much software, but machines don’t get tired,” he quipped.
“As long as there is data, so long as there is knowledge in how to create the architecture, we can create absolute enormous software,” Huang said. “And every single company in the world that develops software will need an AI supercomputer.”