Brandon McBee
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If you recall, Hopper,
came before Blackwell.
Hopper, you could deploy these 42U racks, which was typically like eight GPUs in a server case.
You would take it, plug it in, largely air-cooled as well, right?
We ran some liquid cooling just so we understood the requirements of liquid cooling because Blackwell, for our deployments, is overwhelmingly liquid-cooled.
in its deployment configuration, and instead of eight GPUs in a 42U configuration, it's in this larger 72 GPU rack.
It's like an entire chassis that's being brought in, and it just looks entirely different in the data center.
It's like this giant tower thing that you've seen in pictures floating around on apps.
So Vera Rubin will be the next architecture that comes out.
And we've started receiving testing racks for Vera Rubin.
Yeah, I think that's kind of where you're getting to with it.
But that doesn't necessarily mean, going back to the point earlier, that everyone only wants the latest generation of GPU, right?
We have massive demand for Ampere, Hopper, Blackwell, etc.
And it just varies by use case, model.
And type of client as well.
Like I would qualify that AI labs are probably the ones who are lining up first to secure access to the latest generation GPUs.
Whereas enterprise clients might be very focused on current generation, right?
Like Hopper and Blackwell right now.
What we could offer is what we hear from our clients on that.