[gruturo]

It's tacky but I don't think they are in any way implying an endorsement. Tesla, Ampere, Pascal, Volta, Kelvin, Turing (and quite a few more I can't remember) are all Nvidia architecture names, and are all named after historically important scientists (well, I have my reservations about Kelvin, but that's more personal opinion)

[mk_stjames]

For Nvidia architectures it wasn't 'Kelvin', it was 'Kepler', as in Johannes Kepler the astronomer.

[johntb86]

Kelvin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) ) was an architecture of theirs that was released in 2001.

[jsheard]

I think they only started using the scientist codenames publicly starting from Tesla, but yeah they've used them internally almost since the founding of the company. Early on there was Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine and Curie, then the well-known Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, etc.

[mk_stjames]

Oh wow; I did not realize their architecture naming scheme even went back that far. That was their first one. The earliest I remembered hearing them call out the name was Tesla.

For other's reference, nvidia arch's listed on wikipedia as follows in order:

Kelvin, Rankine, Curie, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, Lovelace + Hopper

[toth]

Off topic, but I have to ask. What do you have against Kelvin?

[mk_stjames]

Maybe they are a descendant of William Rankine. Maybe there is an epic 150-year Scottish Baron family feud still going.

[HWR_14]

My guess is that Gruturo is Irish or is of Irish descent. Kelvin took public stances against the independence (or "home rule") of Ireland.