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]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/1a2c2dea-5897-4c7c-bbce-5b6f3ea5e339/huawei-unveiled-supernode-clusters-as-an-alternative-to-nvidia-and-has-open-sourced-its-cann-heterogeneous-compute-architectureRSS for NodeTue, 18 Aug 2026 10:23:35 GMTMon, 03 Aug 2026 04:46:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Huawei unveiled supernode clusters as an alternative to Nvidia and has open-sourced its CANN heterogeneous compute architecture on Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:14:15 GMT]]>They're not using Nvidia hardware, they developed their own Ascend chips and they figured out a way to connect them which drops latency meaning that even though individual chips are slower, the cluster as a whole is competitive with Nvidia.

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]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27047279https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27047279Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:14:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Huawei unveiled supernode clusters as an alternative to Nvidia and has open-sourced its CANN heterogeneous compute architecture on Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:24:46 GMT]]>They use their own Ascend NPUs. They’re weaker individually than Nvidia’s chips, so they emphasize connecting many more of them together to compensate. It’s not about replacing individual pieces; the product is basically the complete system (think rack-scale AI supercomputer). It’s an alternative to Nvidia’s system level products like NVL144, not necessarily in terms of performance but also because it’s produced 100% domestically in China.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25097575https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25097575Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:24:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Huawei unveiled supernode clusters as an alternative to Nvidia and has open-sourced its CANN heterogeneous compute architecture on Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:53:21 GMT]]>I don't get it. How is this an alternative to NVidia, it just sounds like a way to connect more machines reliably (but those machines still have NVidia hardware)?

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