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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by gruturo on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:41AM (#36213544)
It's tacky but I don't think they are in any way implying an endorsement. Tesla, Ampere, Pascal, Volta, Kelvin, Turing (and quite a few more I can't remember) are all Nvidia architecture names, and are all named after historically important scientists (well, I have my reservations about Kelvin, but that's more personal opinion)
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by toth on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:01AM (#36213873)
Off topic, but I have to ask. What do you have against Kelvin?
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by HWR_14 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:12AM (#36214063)
My guess is that Gruturo is Irish or is of Irish descent. Kelvin took public stances against the independence (or "home rule") of Ireland.
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by mk_stjames on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:10AM (#36214018)
Maybe they are a descendant of William Rankine. Maybe there is an epic 150-year Scottish Baron family feud still going.
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by mk_stjames on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:05AM (#36213948)
For Nvidia architectures it wasn't 'Kelvin', it was 'Kepler', as in Johannes Kepler the astronomer.
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by johntb86 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:16AM (#36214139)
Kelvin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) ) was an architecture of theirs that was released in 2001.
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by jsheard on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:43AM (#36214581)
I think they only started using the scientist codenames publicly starting from Tesla, but yeah they've used them internally almost since the founding of the company. Early on there was Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine and Curie, then the well-known Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, etc.
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Re:Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM by mk_stjames on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:46AM (#36214633)
Oh wow; I did not realize their architecture naming scheme even went back that far. That was their first one. The earliest I remembered hearing them call out the name was Tesla.

For other's reference, nvidia arch's listed on wikipedia as follows in order:

Kelvin, Rankine, Curie, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, Lovelace + Hopper

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