TMCnet News
NVIDIA Ships World's Most Advanced AI System - NVIDIA DGX A100 - to Fight COVID-19; Third-Generation DGX Packs Record 5 Petaflops of AI PerformanceTraining, Inference, Data Analytics Unified on One Platform; SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA DGX™ A100, the third generation of the world’s most advanced AI system, delivering 5 petaflops of AI performance and consolidating the power and capabilities of an entire data center into a single flexible platform for the first time. Immediately available, DGX A100 systems have begun shipping worldwide, with the first order going to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, which will use the cluster’s AI and computing power to better understand and fight COVID-19. “NVIDIA DGX A100 is the ultimate instrument for advancing AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA DGX is the first AI system built for the end-to-end machine learning workflow — from data analytics to training to inference. And with the giant performance leap of the new DGX, machine learning engineers can stay ahead of the exponentially growing size of AI models and data.” DGX A100 systems integrate eight of the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, providing 320GB of memory for training the largest AI datasets, and the latest high-speed NVIDIA Mellanox® HDR 200Gbps interconnects. Multiple smaller workloads can be accelerated by partitioning the DGX A100 into as many as 56 instances per system, using the A100 multi-instance GPU feature. Combining these capabilities enables enterprises to optimize computing power and resources on demand to accelerate diverse workloads, including data analytics, training and inference, on a single, fully integrated, software-defined platform. Immediate DGX A100 Adoption, Support “We’re using America’s most powerful supercomputers in the fight against COVID-19, running AI models and simulations on the latest technology available, like the NVIDIA DGX A100,” said Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences at Argonne. “The compute power of the new DGX A100 systems coming to Argonne will help researchers explore treatments and vaccines and study the spread of the virus, enabling scientists to do years’ worth of AI-accelerated work in months or days.” The University of Florida will be the first institution of higher learning in the U.S. to receive DGX A100 systems, which it will deploy to infuse AI across its entire curriculum to foster an AI-enabled workforce. “The University of Florida has a vision to be a national leader in artificial intelligence, and NVIDIA is an incredibly valuable partner in our quest to do so,” said University of Florida President Kent Fuchs. “Across disciplines, our new NVIDIA DGX A100 systems will position our researchers to solve some of our world’s most pressing challenges and equip an entire generation of students with the skills that will revolutionize the future workforce.” Among other early adopters are:
NVIDIA Builds Next-Gen 700 Petaflops DGX SuperPOD The cluster is one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers — achieving a level of performance that previously required thousands of servers. The enterprise-ready architecture and performance of the DGX A100 enabled NVIDIA to build the system in less than a month, instead of taking months or years of planning and procurement of specialized components previously required to deliver these supercomputing capabilities. To help customers build their own A100-powered data centers, NVIDIA has released a new DGX SuperPOD reference architecture. It gives customers a blueprint that follows the same design principles and best practices NVIDIA used to build its DGX A100-based AI supercomputing cluster. DGXpert Program, DGX-Ready Software DGXperts are AI-fluent specialists who can help guide clients on AI deployments, from planning to implementation to ongoing optimization. These individuals can help DGX A100 customers build and maintain state-of-the-art AI infrastructure. The NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software program helps customers quickly identify and take advantage of NVIDIA-tested third-party MLOps software that can help them increase data science productivity, accelerate AI workflows and improve accessibility and utilization of AI infrastructure. The first program partners certified by NVIDIA are Allegro AI, cnvrg.io, Core Scientific, Domino Data Lab, Iguazio and Paperspace. DGX A100 Technical Specifications
A single rack of five DGX A100 systems replaces a data center of AI training and inference infrastructure, with 1/20th the power consumed, 1/25th the space and 1/10th the cost. Availability NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center partners offer colocation services in more than 122 locations across 26 countries to help customers seeking cost-effective facilities to host their DGX infrastructure. Customers can take advantage of these services to house and access DGX A100 infrastructure inside validated, world-class data center facilities. Further information, including detailed technical specifications and ordering details, is available at www.nvidia.com/DGX-A100. About NVIDIA Media Contact: Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, performance, features and availability of our products, technologies and services, including NVIDIA DGX A100, NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand interconnects, DGX SuperPOD reference architecture, NVIDIA DGXpert program, NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software program, NVSwitch interconnect fabrics, NVLink technology, Mellanox’s In-Network Computing and network acceleration engines, NVIDIA DGX software stack, and NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center partners are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. © 2020 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, DGX, NVIDIA DGX A100, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVLink and NVSwitch are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/4a14145b-a64e-4cbf-8652-369053370558 |