The (right) Software makes Hardware better.
Many years ago I worked at Sun Microsystems which at the time had the most performant technical desktop and servers in the world, powering all the large banks and big technology platforms like Ebay. Sun not only created their own RICS-based CPUS (UltraSPARC), but also their own servers and software. They did this because the marriage between hardware and software had the most impact on customer success - that is software tuned to run optimally on specific hardware performed much better than generic off-the-shelf or open source bits.
I thought about this when an article by Nvidia (https://lnkd.in/dqx8hP5y) caught my eye because it reminded me of the importance of using software which helps you get the most out of hardware. Whether benchmarking performance, maximizing utility, speed, TCO, or customer experience, the right software makes all the difference.
In the age of rapidly advancing technologies such as the field of Generative-AI where GPUs, Frameworks, LLM, RAG databases and many more components are being created at breakneck speeds, ultimate performance and ultimate value will inevitably depend on using the right libraries, tools, SDKs and models that are tuned to maximize the performance of the underlying hardware.