We’re right here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an occasion that is been a long-time coming: NVIDIA’s in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 occasion, NVIDIA’s marquee occasion for the 12 months, guarantees to be an enormous one for NVIDIA, as the corporate is because of ship updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator merchandise – the successor to the GH100 GPU and its Hopper structure – together with NVIDIA’s different skilled/enterprise {hardware}, networking gear, and, in fact, a slew of software program stack updates.
In the 5 years since NVIDIA was final capable of maintain a Spring GTC in particular person, an awesome deal has modified for the corporate. They’re now the third greatest firm on the earth, due to explosive gross sales development (and even additional development expectations) due largely to the mix of GPT-3/four and different transformer fashions, and NVIDIA’s transformer-optimized H100 accelerator. As a end result, NVIDIA is using excessive in Silicon Valley, however to maintain doing so additionally they might want to ship the subsequent massive factor to push the envelope on efficiency, and preserve a lot of hungry opponents off their turf.
Headlining at the moment’s keynote is, in fact, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, whose kick-off handle has lastly outgrown the San Jose Convention Center. As a end result, Huang is filling up the native SAP Center enviornment as a substitute. Suffice it to say, it is a greater venue for a much bigger viewers for a a lot greater firm.
So come be a part of the AnandTech crew for our reside weblog protection of NVIDIA’s greatest enterprise keynote in years. The presentation kicks off at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern, 20:00 UTC.
04:04PM EDT – This is Ryan. Apologies for the late begin right here of us, it has been an attention-grabbing time getting everybody all the way down to the ground and settled. (I’m advised the capability of SAP Arena for live shows is 18,500 folks. With this ground structure, there could also be nearer to 20,000 right here)
04:04PM EDT – So with out additional ado, this is Jensen!
04:04PM EDT – “This is not a concert. You have arrived at a developers conference”
04:04PM EDT – “I sense a very heavy weight in the room all of a sudden”
04:05PM EDT – Jensen is recapping the numerous applied sciences to be seen right here. “Even artificial intelligence”
04:06PM EDT – Showing off a iist of exhibitors. It’s a really massive listing of names
04:07PM EDT – “The computer is the single most important instrument in society today”
04:07PM EDT – How did we get right here? Jensen drew a comic book move chart
04:09PM EDT – CUDA grew to become successful… ultimately. A bit later than Jensen would have preferred
04:09PM EDT – 2023: Generative AI emerged, and a brand new business begins
04:09PM EDT – “The software never existed before, it is a brand new category”
04:10PM EDT – Comparing generative AI to the commercial revolution and the age of power
04:11PM EDT – “We’re going to talk about how we’re doing computing next”
04:11PM EDT – As nicely as software program and purposes on this business. And find out how to begin getting ready for what’s subsequent
04:11PM EDT – Everything we’ll be proven at the moment is a simulation, not an animation
04:12PM EDT – “It’s being animated with robotics. It’s being animated with artificial intelligence”
04:12PM EDT – “Everything is homemade”
04:13PM EDT – Rolling a demo reel of GPU-accelerated purposes
04:13PM EDT – Warp, PhysX Flow, Photoshop, and extra
04:15PM EDT – NVIDIA’s GPUs are solely value utilizing due to the software program written for them. So NVIDIA has all the time made it some extent to showcase what the software program improvement group has been as much as
04:15PM EDT – “General purpose computing has run out of steam”
04:15PM EDT – Need new methods to continue to grow computing. Keep consuming computing
04:16PM EDT – It’s not about driving down the price, it is about driving up the dimensions
04:16PM EDT – Jensen wish to…
