Transcript
A (0:00)
Foreign. Welcome to Reshaping Workflows with Dell Pro Precision and Nvidia, where innovation meets real world impact in high performance computing.
B (0:19)
Welcome back. This is Logan live from GTC Reshaping Workflows 2026. I'm here with Jack Kavanaugh who ironically enough is working on the Dell account and I'm interviewing. So it works out really well. But I won't steal his thunder. Jack, before we get started, give everyone a little bit of background. What do you do at Canonical?
A (0:36)
Yeah, so I work at Canonical as the Dell alliance manager. I help drive joint go to market with Dell. So largely focused on data centers, building software stacks on top of Dell products for a better together solution.
B (0:51)
Better together, my favorite word. So you're at gtc, you've been here before. What is new for Canonical at GTC this year? Any new announcements and any new products, any new additional capabilities? Tell us what's new for this year at GTC for Canonical.
A (1:07)
Yeah, so we have a long standing and existing partnership with Nvidia kind of across the architecture stack that they have. So new for this year, we have relationships building on the devices side of things. So the Jetson line of products, we are building optimized images with Ubuntu for that platform as well as continued development on the data center side of things. Optimizing Ubuntu as an operating system to run across the Nvidia line of products. Enabling and further enabling DGX and IGX as an operating system. Just providing a clean open source environment on which people can develop and build on top of Nvidia hardware.
B (1:45)
So that's interesting. So on like kind of the Jetson and Thor, right? I mean obviously that being new, I did not know that. Maybe go a little bit deeper into what that means, you know what was kind of done before, was it running, you know, not Canonical? Like why, why Canonical on the Jetson stores and those like kind of Edge robotics devices now versus before?
A (2:04)
Yeah. So in the past Nvidia had focused on using Jetpack as the the platform to develop on Jetson through our existing partnership. Like I mentioned, we came into the devices side of things with Jetson, Thor and Orin to provide the operating system layer of things to a just provide a more cohesive, fully built out solution. We as a company look at ourselves as the experts in open source, experts in Linux operating system, have a whole devices division within our company focusing on devices, edge devices. And so we can come in with Nvidia to jointly create a platform that's easy to develop. On integrated with all the Nvidia drivers and just provides a platform which people can use familiar open source tooling and infrastructure and build a end user application or a product that is just a very cohesive open source solution.