Nvidia Reveals Edge Supercomputer, Taps Ericsson for 5G vRAN

Nvidia claims it has achieved a breakthrough in edge supercomputing and is working with Ericsson to build what it describes as the “world’s first software defined 5G RAN (radio access network).” From the company’s vantage point at the intersection of computer graphics, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI), Nvidia is releasing a CPU that is configured for myriad use cases off the shelf including 5G network architecture, IoT, and AI. The Nvidia EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform, which is cloud native and powered by the Cuda Tensor Core GPU, can process 15 teraflops of data per second and up to 140 simultaneous high-definition video streams. All of this processing basically translates to one single node [that] is equivalent to hundreds of nodes in a data center,” CEO Jensen Huang said during his keynote at MWC Los Angeles 2019.