The interesting part is that this is less "CUDA now runs on RISC-V" and more "Nvidia is defining what a CUDA-capable RISC-V server has to look like."
That could end up being a pretty influential de facto server profile for the architecture.
The interesting part is that this is less "CUDA now runs on RISC-V" and more "Nvidia is defining what a CUDA-capable RISC-V server has to look like."
That could end up being a pretty influential de facto server profile for the architecture.
And Nvidia is big enough that they could impose some order on the ecosystem that the ecosystem so far has either been unable or unwilling to impose on itself. The wild west of one-offs can continue to make their application-specific designs while everyone else will presumably benefit from a reasonably standardized platform.
Beyond the significant PCI-e requirements, I'm tickled pink that many of the server platform requirements are "do what x86 does"... ACPI, UEFI, a TPM. I hope they do a better job with standards compliance than some of the shadier Wintel OEMs!