This tutorial walks through NVIDIA Nsight Python, an open-source interface for profiling GPU kernels from Python code. It covers hardware metrics, cache and clock controls, and measuring the effect of kernel fusion.
A taskforce including Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has told the UK government it has 12 months to win over the public on datacentres, or risk US-style protests that could threaten construction. The group urges ministers to give local areas bigger benefits from the infrastructure, as dry summers and rising energy bills fuel scrutiny.
NVIDIA says companies are adopting its DSX AI Factory Platform to plan, simulate and operate the power grid and the AI factory as a single system, from substation to rack. The pitch responds to power becoming the biggest constraint on AI infrastructure.
MIT Technology Review points to a cost of AI that executives tend to overlook: data storage. Billions of daily prompts, images and videos leave behind back-end data that has to be kept somewhere after a model responds.
Google is offering European researchers free compute credits through RAISE, which makes AI easier to access. JDN warns that this creates a dependency that becomes costly when leaving, and that portability should be checked up front.
Jas Khaira, who heads AI at Blackstone, explains why the private equity giant is not alarmed by market nerves. He considers worries about the debt financing the AI buildout to be exaggerated.