Graphics giant Nvidia has big plans for company expansion. A central part of those plans has been to expand into CPU production and the company finally took the wraps off its new design during the GTC 2021 keynote presentation. This new CPU design is ARM-based and will feature prominently in the upcoming Alps supercomputer.
The Alps supercomputer is expected to come online in 2023 and is the result of a partnership between the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Nvidia. The Alps system infrastructure will replace CSCS’s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose system open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world.