NVIDIA Cooperating With ARM Chips To Build Supercomputers In 2019

Last month, Nvidia announced it would partner with ARM Holdings in order to build supercomputers. Nvidia will incorporate ARM Holdings' processors and its chips into its systems used to model both nuclear weapons and climate change predictions.

Nvidia is a famous graphics chip supplier for PC and laptops. Its chips increase the image quality of video games displayed on the screen. But its chips are now also put into data centers to make computing work faster, like training computers for image recognition.

Nvidia's accelerated chips have been put into operation alongside IBM and Intel's central processors. In a supercomputing conference held in Germany, the company officially acknowledged that by the end of 2019, its chips will work with those from ARM.

ARM, which belongs to the SoftBank Group of Japan, is known for providing crucial processor tech for most mobile phones' chips. However, Ampere Computing, the company of former president at Intel, is also actively working to bring the chips into data centers, where Intel has more advantages.

It is worth noting that the ARM processor is not the same as the chips of IBM or Intel. This company does not produce chips, it instead provides the underlying technologies so other parties can rely on them to produce processors.

The project with ARM to build supercomputers will be a big step forward from a technical perspective, according to Ian Buck, vice president of Nvidia’s accelerated computer division. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said:

Nvidia researchers in Japan and Europe want to produce supercomputing chips based on ARM technology because this is the best option besides Intel and IBM. Plus, they will have more control in the project.

Buck added in an interview with Reuters that the openness and comfort of collaborating and using ARM's technology made this project much more attractive to scientists. Thanks to ARM’s ability to provide open knowledge for supercomputers, Nvidia is very excited to be a part of this project.

Before the announcement of the cooperation agreement between ARM and Nvidia, the company had announced an agreement to buy Israel's Mellanox Technologies worth $6.8 billion. Mellanox Technologies has produced high-speed network chips that link small computers into a larger computer. These chips of Mellanox are also equipped in many world's most powerful supercomputers.

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