AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration...

AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration services, security controls, and a rapidly changing software stack. Deploying this infrastructure effectively is a challenge. But so is being able to validate that the infrastructure, software, and policies work together for the workloads the…

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A robot arm doesn’t care where the server lives There is no single safest option. Cloud, on-premises and hybrid setups can all protect robotics systems well. They just split responsibility differently, and most factories end up blending them. Sounds neat on paper. In practice, it’s messy. A welding cell, a fleet of warehouse robots and […]

GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like first-class GPU-controlled operations rather than host-driven services. When the...

GPU applications increasingly need networking and data movement to behave like first-class GPU-controlled operations rather than host-driven services. When the CPU sits in the middle of every network transaction, it becomes a bottleneck on the critical path, adding latency and limiting how efficiently distributed applications can respond in real time. NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO…

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GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters depend on compatible versions across dozens of components, each on its own release cycle: host kernels, GPU drivers,...

GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters depend on compatible versions across dozens of components, each on its own release cycle: host kernels, GPU drivers, container runtimes, networking, storage, operators, and workload frameworks. A configuration that works for one service, GPU generation, and Kubernetes release may silently fail for another, and tracing version conflicts after deployment is…

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GPU applications increasingly consist of multiple independent components running at the same time within a single process: a latency-sensitive operator...

GPU applications increasingly consist of multiple independent components running at the same time within a single process: a latency-sensitive operator alongside a throughput-oriented background kernel; a data preprocessing stage alongside model inference; or multiple stages of a processing workflow sharing a single GPU. Controlling how GPU resources are shared between them remains difficult.

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AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents weren't built with specialized infrastructure software such as...

AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents weren’t built with specialized infrastructure software such as NVIDIA DOCA in mind. Without domain-specific knowledge, agents may fall back on guesswork. This is an issue in infrastructure development because every correction cycle takes time away from deployment. DOCA is the unified software platform…

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AI infrastructure engineers, storage developers, and cloud service providers need fast and secure access to high-capacity file and object storage to support AI...

AI infrastructure engineers, storage developers, and cloud service providers need fast and secure access to high-capacity file and object storage to support AI workloads. AI workloads increasingly require high-speed data access for training, fine-tuning, inference context, tool calls, searches, and database lookups. Much of this data lies in files and objects stored both on-premises and in…

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Parallel work, model-family isolation, reversible changes, and GPU-backed validation shaped an open source project designed around coding agents NVIDIA TensorRT...

Parallel work, model-family isolation, reversible changes, and GPU-backed validation shaped an open source project designed around coding agents NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect is an open source collection of AI model reference implementations in C++, built on top of NVIDIA TensorRT. It began with a practical question: could the performance of the NVIDIA inference stack be made accessible to…

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Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a...

Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a protective buffer that can leave valuable infrastructure underused during normal operation. NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS uses policy-governed power sharing to allocate power across participating resources dynamically, enabling customers to deploy up to…

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As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding...

As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding capabilities increases computation for both training and inference. Mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures take a different approach to scaling by using many subnetworks, or experts, while activating only a small subset for each token.

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A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload. Even when every GPU, network link, and pod reports healthy, a 512-GPU training...

A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload. Even when every GPU, network link, and pod reports healthy, a 512-GPU training job can underperform or fail. The cause may be one slow GPU, a link that degrades under load, or a configuration that quietly routes traffic over a slower path. Operators may not discover the problem until hours into the run or until a…

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Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents,...

Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents, and the host-level tuning that GPU workloads depend on. Many teams manage this with Ansible playbooks, custom scripts, and manual runbooks. That works until a new cluster comes up in a different region, a kernel upgrade breaks RDMA…

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As large language model (LLM) inference increasingly processes sensitive information and proprietary model context across personal, enterprise, and regulated...

As large language model (LLM) inference increasingly processes sensitive information and proprietary model context across personal, enterprise, and regulated settings, data must be processed inside a trusted environment. NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) provides a pathway for running these workloads securely using memory-encrypted confidential virtual machines (CVMs), confidential GPUs…

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AI factories are power-limited systems that deliver maximum value when fully optimized. GPU workload placement is a key optimization. Poor workload placement...

AI factories are power-limited systems that deliver maximum value when fully optimized. GPU workload placement is a key optimization. Poor workload placement fragments topology domains and forces traffic across shared links, reducing throughput, raising job costs, and leaving GPUs consuming provisioned power while waiting on data without advancing the workload. GPUs exchange data continuously…

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How can a 30B-parameter model activate only 3B parameters per token, and still use the capacity of the larger model? Nemotron 3.5 Lightning illustrates the...

How can a 30B-parameter model activate only 3B parameters per token, and still use the capacity of the larger model? Nemotron 3.5 Lightning illustrates the answer: It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that selects only a subset of its parameters for each token. There are two dominant model architectures: Dense model and MoE. How a model organizes its parameters matters as much as…

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For operators of large-scale AI factories, maximizing continuous output is essential for productivity. In massive-scale AI training, every GPU in the cluster...

For operators of large-scale AI factories, maximizing continuous output is essential for productivity. In massive-scale AI training, every GPU in the cluster must synchronize gradients across thousands of collective operations per second. Similarly, during inference, unplanned downtime directly reduces the total volume of requests served, strictly limiting revenue generation.

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Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist through the pipeline efficiently. NVIDIA...

Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist through the pipeline efficiently. NVIDIA BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR) helps accelerate supported biomolecular structure-prediction models on NVIDIA GPUs while keeping the familiar PyTorch workflow. It uses optimized kernels and, where applicable, CUDA Graphs to speed model…

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IBM Research and Red Hat deployed a 753B open model on H100 GPUs, serving thousands of concurrent coding agents at 5-10x lower cost than commercial APIs.

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook...

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook where that data resides, and invoke an assistant that calls services in another cluster. The workflow feels unified, but identity crosses control-plane and data-plane boundaries at every step. That is where conventional single sign-on…

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This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and...

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and offers five guidelines for selecting draft length and draft mechanism across the Pareto frontier. For a discussion of how model design choices impact both throughput and interactivity without sacrificing accuracy, see AI Model Co…

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