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What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between servers is starting to become the most significant factor in overall performance. Remote Direct Memory Access, or RDMA, is one of the technologies reshaping how that data moves, […]
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SpacemiT announces the availability of  Ubuntu on K3/K1 series RISC-V AI computing platforms

SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. today announced a  collaboration with Canonical to make  Ubuntu available on SpacemiT’s new K3 SoC and the existing K1 series RISC-V computing platforms. This collaboration marks a deep integration between open-source operating systems and open RISC-V silicon, bringing powerful, flexible, and reliable intelligent computing solutions to developers worldwide. Hardware platforms […]
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AI meets SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu

Partnership between Microsoft and Canonical Since 2016, when Microsoft announced its intention to make Linux a first class citizen in its ecosystem, Canonical and Microsoft have been working hand in hand to make that vision a reality. Ubuntu was among the first distributions to support the preview of SQL Server on Linux. Ubuntu was the […]
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AWS IoT Greengrass comes to Ubuntu Core

AWS’s open source edge run time meets Canonical’s fully containerized OS for devices delivering a supported and robust end-to-end answer for enterprises looking to develop their own IoT hardware and solutions. London, February 3, 2026 — Canonical and AWS are pleased to announce the release of the new snap for AWS IoT Greengrass, making the […]
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Showcasing open design in action: Loughborough University design students explore open source projects

Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project briefs. Team 1 focused on non-code contributions, while Team 2’s brief was to create a unified documentation experience, giving them a chance to apply their design skills to real-world problems […]
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Canonical Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Canonical announced it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available. This new independent cloud for Europe enables organizations to run secure, enterprise workloads with full operational autonomy and EU data residency. By combining the performance and expanded security coverage of Ubuntu Pro with AWS sovereignty controls, customers can meet stringent EU regulatory requirements while continuing to innovate at scale.
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Canonical announces Ubuntu support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform

Official Ubuntu support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems, announced at CES 2026 CES 2026, Las Vegas. – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is pleased to announce official support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform and the latest distributions of the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3 open models.  As AI […]
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GeForce NOW Rings In 2026 With 14 New Games in January

New year, new games, all with RTX 5080-powered cloud energy. GeForce NOW is kicking off 2026 by looking back at an unforgettable year of wins and wildly high frame rates. From streams of the biggest blockbusters to new ways to play anywhere, members showed all year what happens when great games meet serious GeForce performance
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Make Spirits Bright With Holiday Hits on GeForce NOW

Holiday lights are twinkling, hot cocoa’s on the stove and gamers are settling in for a well-earned break. Whether staying in or heading on a winter getaway, GeForce NOW makes it easy to keep gaming from anywhere. Stream the 13 new games joining GeForce NOW this week across devices — including laptops, tablets and mobile
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NVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMD

NVIDIA today announced it has acquired SchedMD — the leading developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI — to help strengthen the open-source software ecosystem and drive AI innovation for researchers, developers and enterprises. NVIDIA will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, making it
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How to Fine-Tune an LLM on NVIDIA GPUs With Unsloth

Modern workflows showcase the endless possibilities of generative and agentic AI on PCs. Of many, some examples include tuning a chatbot to handle product-support questions or building a personal assistant for managing one’s schedule. A challenge remains, however, in getting a small language model to respond consistently with high accuracy for specialized agentic tasks. That’s
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As AI Grows More Complex, Model Builders Rely on NVIDIA

Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 today. The model was trained and deployed on NVIDIA infrastructure, including NVIDIA Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems. GPT-5.2 achieves the top reported score for industry benchmarks like GPQA-Diamond, AIME 2025 and Tau2 Telecom. On leading benchmarks targeting
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Ride Into Adventure With Capcom’s ‘Monster Hunter Stories’ Series in the Cloud

Hunters, saddle up — adventure awaits in the cloud. Journey into the world of Monster Hunter Stories as Capcom’s acclaimed role-playing classics join GeForce NOW. Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin are soaring into the cloud this week, bringing colorful worlds, charming companions and turn-based monster battles across devices. They
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Opt-In NVIDIA Software Enables Data Center Fleet Management

As the scale and complexity of AI infrastructure grows, data center operators need continuous visibility into factors including performance, temperature and power usage. These insights enable data center operators to actively monitor and adjust data center configurations across large-scale, distributed systems — validating that these systems are operating at their highest efficiency and reliability. NVIDIA
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How NVIDIA H100 GPUs on CoreWeave’s AI Cloud Platform Delivered a Record-Breaking Graph500 Run

The world’s top-performing system for graph processing at scale was built on a commercially available cluster. NVIDIA last month announced a record-breaking benchmark result of 410 trillion traversed edges per second (TEPS), ranking No. 1 on the 31st Graph500 breadth-first search (BFS) list. Performed on an accelerated computing cluster hosted in a CoreWeave data center
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3 Ways NVIDIA Is Powering the Industrial Revolution

The NVIDIA accelerated computing platform is leading supercomputing benchmarks once dominated by CPUs, enabling AI, science, business and computing efficiency worldwide. Moore’s Law has run its course, and parallel processing is the way forward. With this evolution, NVIDIA GPU platforms are now uniquely positioned to deliver on the three scaling laws — pretraining, post-training and
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NVIDIA Awards up to $60,000 Research Fellowships to PhD Students

For 25 years, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has supported graduate students doing outstanding work relevant to NVIDIA technologies. Today, the program announced the latest awards of up to $60,000 each to 10 Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation. Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool, the awardees will
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Robots’ Holiday Wishes Come True: NVIDIA Jetson Platform Offers High-Performance Edge AI at Festive Prices

Editor’s note: This blog has been updated to showcase additional recent innovations tapping into the NVIDIA Jetson platform. Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday shopping this season as NVIDIA has unwrapped special discounts on the NVIDIA Jetson family of developer kits for edge AI and robotics — available through
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