GPUs have become increasingly important for several large software firms such as AWS, Google, and OpenAI, as the demand for generative AI continues to grow steadily.
Oracle has started taking pre-orders for 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the cloud via its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster to aid large language model (LLM) training and other use cases, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference.
The launch of an offering that provides these many Blackwell GPUs, otherwise known as Grace Blackwell (GB) 200, is significant as enterprises globally are faced with the unavailability of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — a key component used in making GPUs.
The current wait time for HBMs and in turn GPUs, according to top executives of several GPU-makers, is at least 18 months, which means that orders placed won’t be fulfilled before 2026.
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