Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues
Nvidia has introduced the DSX platform to help datacenters maximize compute performance within existing power grid limits. The system uses a unified API to coordinate power usage between GPUs and infrastructure components like cooling and power cabinets. By reducing energy waste, the technology allows operators to fit more compute nodes into the same power budget, thereby increasing potential revenue.
- ▪Nvidia's DSX platform aims to increase performance per gigawatt by optimizing datacenter power efficiency.
- ▪The DSX Exchange API enables communication between Nvidia GPUs and third-party infrastructure providers like Vertiv and Schneider Electric.
- ▪Testing with Lambda demonstrated that the system can fit 19 compute nodes into a power budget that typically supports only 16.
- ▪Nvidia argues that improving datacenter efficiency is critical to overcoming power grid capacity constraints that limit GPU sales.
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