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Chipping Away at Nvidia's Lead: Lisa Su's AMD Plan, Two Years On
In December 2024 Bloomberg's The Circuit asked AMD CEO Lisa Su how she would chip away at Nvidia's lead in AI. We check the plan against AMD's 2026 results and Helios launch, and explain what a credible second AI platform means for UK buyers. Includes a link to the interview.
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NVIDIA NVKE and NVKR: Why GPU Kubernetes Is Becoming the AI Factory's Operating System
NVIDIA has open-sourced NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine (NVKE) and NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes (NVKR) to run managed Kubernetes on GPU infrastructure. What they do in plain terms, what public preview really means, why AI engineering is creating new demand for cloud and DevOps skills, and who should evaluate them now.
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NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition: One GPU for AI, Graphics and Simulation in a UK Server Room
96 GB of GDDR7, FP4 Tensor Cores and RT Cores in a standard PCIe card: what NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition does, why it suits companies running private AI in rooms they already have, the three system sizes from a four-GPU 2U server to a 32-GPU rack like AMAX's RackScale 32, and what to check before ordering.
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NVIDIA Minerva for AI Factories: Turning Alert Storms into Recovered GPU Hours
One degrading optic can raise thousands of alerts and stall a thousand GPUs. What NVIDIA Minerva does, what it is worth in GPU hours, goodput, MTBI, MTTR and tokens, which of its three consumption models fits, worked examples for a Vera Rubin NVL72 neocloud, a university Blackwell cluster and an enterprise with Grafana and ServiceNow, and how it relates to UFM.
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NVIDIA UFM for AI Clusters: Why InfiniBand Fabric Visibility Decides What Your GPUs Are Worth
One flapping InfiniBand link can stall a 256-GPU job. What NVIDIA Unified Fabric Manager does, when UFM Telemetry, Enterprise or Cyber-AI fits, worked examples for a 4-node DGX B300 cluster, a 32-node SuperPOD-style cluster and a university Slurm service, and what fabric visibility is worth in GPU hours.
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NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 Has Landed in the UK: Configure Yours Today
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 systems have arrived with our UK distribution partners. Configure and price your eight-GPU B300 build in minutes with our AI Sales Engineer, save with Workstation Trade, and order today to be first in line as UK supply arrives.
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What an AI Factory Actually Delivers: One Rack, 32 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and the Work It Does for You
An AI factory turns your own data into answers, agents, forecasts and trained models on hardware you control. Here is what goes in, what comes out, how the work flows every day, and what a rack of four Compal SGX30-2 servers with 32 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs needs to run.
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