Huawei Technologies is pushing for wider support of its Ascend artificial intelligence (AI) processor-based, high-performance computing architecture – called Supernode 384 – that is touted as a rival to the structure used in US semiconductor firm Nvidia’s NVL72 system in alleviating bottlenecks for data centres. “As the scale of parallel processing grows, cross-machine bandwidth in traditional server architectures has become a critical bottleneck for training,” said Zhang Dixuan, president of...