Big Blue’s New “WebSpheres” To Surf The Container And AI Waves

July 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Without question, there is a lot of money that can be made on AI training and inference, as is aptly shown by the financial results of Nvidia. That company, which is the darling of Wall Street these days, has gone from datacenter wannabe to datacenter giant in the course of a decade and a half. It has been fascinating to watch, but it is as much the result of lucky timing as hard work, as Jensen Huang, the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer, admitted from the beginning.

Nvidia has been working on parallel computing architectures for accelerating HPC workloads …