Artificial intelligence (AI) computing company Nvidia has revealed its HGX-1, a hyperscale GPU accelerator that consists of eight Tesla P100 GPUs connected via NVLink, Nvidia's high-performance interconnect technology. The project has been announced in partnership with Microsoft, which is planning to use the accelerator in its Project Olympus open server design. In addition to being able to handle more than 1,000 compute cores at once, the new system will be capable of running up to four times faster than current supercomputers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) computing company Nvidia has revealed its HGX-1, a hyperscale GPU accelerator that consists of eight Tesla P100 GPUs connected via NVLink, Nvidia's high-performance interconnect technology. The project has been announced in partnership with Microsoft, which is planning to use the accelerator in its Project Olympus open server design. Roy Kim, Tesla's director of product management, said the HGX-1 was designed “to meet the exploding demand for AI computing in the cloud – in fields such as autonomous driving, personalised healthcare, superhuman voice recognition, data and video analytics and molecular simulations".