Canonical has confirmed plans to help NVIDIA’s recently-launched Jetson Thor household of edge synthetic intelligence (edge AI) modules in its Ubuntu Linux distribution — persevering with a longstanding partnership that sees Ubuntu used as the bottom for NVIDIA’s Jetpack distribution, previously referred to as Linux 4 Tegra (L4T).
“The official help from Canonical will supply optimized Ubuntu photographs and enterprise-grade stability and safety,” the corporate claimed of its help for the Jetson Thor household. “This dedication to long-term help and safety updates ensures enterprise-grade stability and reliability to the mix of Ubuntu and NVIDIA Jetson system-on-modules.”
Canonical has confirmed plans to launch official Ubuntu photographs for the complete NVIDIA Jetson Thor household, together with the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Package (pictured). (📷: NVIDIA)
NVIDIA opened orders for the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Package earlier this month, after teasing the machine again in March final 12 months. The newest within the firm’s Jetson vary of systems-on-modules (SOMs), the Jetson Thor household is the primary to characteristic the corporate’s Blackwell graphics processor structure — delivering, within the $3,499 Jetson AGX Thor Developer Package, a claimed 2,070 tera-floating level operations per second (TFLOPS) of sparse FP4-precision compute from 2,560 CUDA cores, 96 Tensor cores, a 14-core Arm Neoverse V3AE processor, a PVA v3 imaginative and prescient accelerator, and 128GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence.
As with earlier Jetson units, the Jetson Thor household is designed to be used with NVIDIA’s Jetpack Linux distribution — however may also obtain official Ubuntu photographs from Canonical itself. “Canonical’s official Ubuntu picture for NVIDIA Jetson Thor will allow builders and enterprises to create breakthrough AI options,” Canonical claims, “corresponding to imaginative and prescient AI brokers, generative AI edge functions, medical units and autonomous robots. The work between Canonical and NVIDIA will allow sustainable deployment of generative AI functions on the edge – for all the Jetson Thor collection of modules.”
Canonical already presents photographs for the Jetson AGX Orin, Orin Nano, and Orin NX modules, primarily based on the three-year-old Ubuntu Server 22.04 platform; the corporate has promised that photographs for the Jetson Thor household “can be introduced quickly,” however on the time of writing had not dedicated to a launch timescale.
The Jetson Thor photographs will be part of Ubuntu 22.04 photographs for the Jetson AGX Orin, Orin Nano, and Orin NX modules. (📷: Canonical)
“These photographs are optimized for each the developer equipment and the modules,” the corporate says, “making certain you may construct probably the most highly effective edge AI functions, and scale their deployment efficiently. Utilizing these photographs is quick and simple: merely choose the OS picture to match your {hardware}, flash it onto a USB or NVMe disk, and cargo it onto your board. For Ubuntu Core, it is possible for you to to obtain pre-built photographs for exploration and experimentation.”
All currently-available Ubuntu photographs for supported NVIDIA Jetson modules can be found on the Ubuntu web site.
