News PPDS, TP Vision, MMD Monitors and Displays and AOC team
up on ‘TPV Cares’ TPV, TP VISION, AOC AND MMD have jointly launched ‘TPV Cares’, a brand-new foundation that has been curated to help and support people and communities in more than 200 countries.
The new foundation covers EMEA,
APAC, ASIA and North America) and will provide a variety of volunteer, financial and in-kind support for deserving community projects. Martijn van der Woude, Global Head of Business Development and Marketing for PPDS said: “Having led the sustainability drive at PPDS for some years now, I have seen the positive impact we can make as a company first hand, and there are many opportunities ahead with TPV Cares. Our support can take many different forms, from providing state-
of-the-art technologies to facilitate education and social integration within communities, through to fundraising for local and global causes.”
“When we partner with organisations, we are in it for the long term, building meaningful relationships to bring about lasting impact. We support partners and initiatives that have synergies
with our business, our products and our focus on the UN Sustainability Development Goals, in particular good health and wellbeing and quality education. TPV Cares offers a fantastic opportunity for our people to make a real impact, and I cannot wait to see how we can make a difference to local communities together in the future.”
Canonical works with NVIDIA and BT to unlock infrastructure
scalability UBUNTU KVM has extended its reach to AI/ML applications and graphics-intensive applications with native support for NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software products, including NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS) and NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS). Canonical has been working closely with NVIDIA to ensure frictionless integration and enhanced user experience. This allows all Ubuntu users, from those in data science to those working on high-end professional graphics, to benefit from powerful GPU performance across the entire spectrum of cloud infrastructure. “By processing data closer to the end device, edge computing has the potential to minimise the amount of data that must be transported across our core network.” said Paul Veitch, Senior Manager of Software Based Networks Research at BT. “However, we must avoid cancelling out these network cost savings due to additional operational complexity. The introduction of NVIDIA virtual GPU support in Ubuntu means that we not only can consistently and cost-effectively leverage the same monitoring and maintenance tools in core and edge deployments, we can also unlock differentiated services for our customers”. “NVIDIA has long been a leader in data science and computer graphics, delivering performance-optimised chips, systems, and software that significantly accelerate all types of compute and visualisation workloads.” said Cindy Goldberg, VP, Silicon Alliances at Canonical. “By collaborating with NVIDIA on engineering efforts, Canonical delivers a future-proof cloud platform that serves as a foundation for next-generation AI/ML and visualisation.” The future-proof cloud platform mentioned by Goldberg is based on Charmed OpenStack – Canonical’s enterprise-grade
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OpenStack distribution. The support for NVIDIA vGPU software products includes rich lifecycle management capabilities available on the platform. Organisations can quickly deploy enterprise-grade, cost-effective infrastructure and integrate it with NVIDIA vGPU software, benefitting from full automation available in Charmed OpenStack. This eliminates technology barriers and allows more organisations to enter AI/ML and visualisation spaces faster. NVIDIA vGPU Software enables data scientists, as well as technical and creative professionals, to break through the constraints of hardware scalability, making highly performant GPU resources available on demand for all cloud users. While physical limitations dictate the maximum number of GPUs that can be installed on hypervisors, the virtualisation layer democratises these constraints, allowing resources to be shared. This improves energy efficiency of the platform and helps reduce the negative climate impact of data centres. “BT has been a leader on climate and sustainability action for almost 30 years and we’ve pledged that our operations will be net zero emissions by 2030,” said Christian Lafferty, Research Manager of Software Based Networks at BT. “Reproducing existing data centre technology at the edge is not enough. We need new, lean algorithms that can fully exploit the benefits of virtualisation and containerisation,” he added. “There is currently a huge demand for GPU technology due to the rapid growth in data science, machine learning, and video analytics. We need to meet this demand while driving energy efficiency and minimising our impact on the environment. NVIDIA GPU virtualisation on Canonical Ubuntu provides us with a bedrock for this sustainable research.”
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