At Computex 2023 on Monday, Nvidia said it is building Israel’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer to meet growing customer demand for artificial intelligence applications. Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chip company, said the cloud-based system would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and be partially operational by the end of 2023.8 exaflops of artificial intelligence processing power
In a statement from Nvidia, it was stated that Israel-1 is expected to offer AI computing performance of up to 8 exaflops, making it one of the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers in the world. Israel-1 is also expected to deliver more than 130 petaflops of compute performance for traditional scientific computing workloads. In this sense it is significantly slower than AMD’s Frointier. Of course, the purpose of this system is artificial intelligence and it is unrivaled in that regard. Meanwhile, an exaflop is equivalent to 1 quintillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.Gilad Shainer, the company’s senior vice president of HPC (high performance computing) and networking, said: “Artificial intelligence is the most important technology force in our lives, and Nvidia is committed to being at the forefront of that force. Israel-1 will help us drive innovation in Israel and around the world. “It represents a huge investment,” he said.
The system will be based on the Nvidia Spectrum-X networking platform announced at the event, designed to improve Ethernet-based cloud AI performance and efficiency. Israel-1 will offer more than 34 million CUDA and more than 1 million fourth-generation Tensor cores upon completion. For this, the supercomputer will have 256 HGX H100 GPU system supplied by Dell Technologies, which houses 2,560 BlueField-3 DPUs (data processing units) and 80 Spectrum-4 switches and a total of 2,048 Nvidia H100 80GB GPUs.
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