Last year Cambridge worked closely with NVIDIA to provide early access to Grace Hopper servers to academic and science customers who were excited to get their hands on the technology. We seeded over 100 units and most of these are now in production in some form or other. This base of early Grace Hopper adopters has been sharing ideas, experiences, and best practices with each other over the course of the year. This meetup offers a chance to get together in person.

Earlier this year at the GTC conference, NVIDIA announced the Blackwell architecture and the Grace Blackwell ecosystem. These platforms introduce new architectures with different performance characteristics that place additional demands on data centers, IT staff, and users.

Come have lunch, hear how people use Grace Hopper today, and learn the latest about Blackwell.

The agenda for the day is as follows. For additional description, see the EventBrite Agenda section below:

11:30 to 12:30 -- Presentations

Eikon Therapeutics
San Jose State University - The Wildlife Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC)
General Discussion - Planning for Blackwell and Grace Blackwell

12:30 Lunch: Catered by Chick-Fil-A and The College Football Hall of Fame

12:45 to 1:30 Sponsor Presentations During Lunch

ARC Compute - GPU fractionalization and performance optimization
Drive Nets – Breath new life into Ethernet Infrastructure
Starfish Storage – Unstructured Data Orchestration for AI/ML Workflows

Sharing Perspectives and Experiences with the Nvidia Grace Ecosystems