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When Super gets Charged—Nvidia’s HGX-2

Nvidia just won’t quit and has built a double-decker server rack-mount console of Volta AIBs that can be used for AI training among things. The hardcore specifications are: AIBs: 16x Tesla V100s, providing 10,240 Tensor cores, plus 81,920 CUDA cores with 500GB of GPU memory Performance: 2 petaFLOPS AI | 250 teraFLOPS, FP32 | 125 teraFLOPS FP64 NVSwitch Communication Channel powered ...

Jon Peddie

Nvidia just won’t quit and has built a double-decker server rack-mount console of Volta AIBs that can be used for AI training among things. The hardcore specifications are: AIBs: 16x Tesla V100s, providing 10,240 Tensor cores, plus 81,920 CUDA cores with 500GB of GPU memory Performance: 2 petaFLOPS AI | 250 teraFLOPS, FP32 | 125 teraFLOPS FP64 NVSwitch Communication Channel powered by NVLink with aggregate speed of 2.4TB/sec This beast of a system is targeted at AI developers, and draws a powerline-sagging 1,200 watts. Price is unknown at this time, but will probably be in the neighborhood $400k. Nvidia’s super-charged, Volta-based
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