Analysis Nvidia showed really well at the international supercomputer show in Hamburg last week. Its GH200 ranked among the 10 most powerful widely known supercomputers, while CPU-GPU frankenchips dominated the Green500 for the efficiency award.
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But Nvidia's gains in HPC may be short-lived if the next-generation Blackwell accelerators are anything to go by.
The GPU giant revealed its financial numbers for its latest quarter, Q1 of its 2025 fiscal year, earlier today. There's more on that here.
The parts, unveiled at GTC, are as fast as they are hot, both in terms of demand and temperature. Its GB200 superchips can break out 40 petaFLOPS of 4-bit precision performance while sucking 2700W of power. No wonder the chip requires liquid cooling.
