Nvidia A100 Linpack

A few weeks ago azure received an nvidia a100 upgrade to its virtual machines.

Nvidia a100 linpack. Nvidia s new internal ai supercomputer selene joins the upper echelon of the 55th top500 s ranks and breaks an energy efficiency barrier. It s powered by nvidia volta architecture comes in 16 and 32gb configurations and offers the performance of up to 32 cpus in a single gpu. Nvidia hgx a100 8 gpu provides 5 petaflops of fp16 deep learning compute while the 16 gpu hgx a100 delivers a staggering 10 petaflops creating the world s most powerful accelerated scale up server platform for ai and hpc. Nvidia is expecting the nvidia dgx superpod system to beat this with its touted 400 petaflops of ai performance and eight petaflops of linpack performance where linpack is a software library for.

Nvidia says cambridge 1 is powered by 80 nvidia dgx a100 systems connected by nvidia mellanox infiniband networking and will be the first of its supercomputers designed for external r d access. The system will feature 80 nvidia dgx a100 systems combined for 400 petaflops of ai compute or eight petaflops of standard linpack performance. That puts it 29th on the top500 list of the world s most powerful supercomputers and among the top three most energy efficient machines in the green500 if it were scored today. The dgx a100 is an agile system available today that packs eight a100 gpus in a 6u server with nvidia mellanox hdr infiniband networking.

Cambridge 1 will be the uk s most powerful supercomputer clocking in at 400 pflops or 8 pflops linpack performance. Nvidia hgx a100 4 gpu delivers nearly 80 teraflops of fp64 for the most demanding hpc workloads. Nvidia announced it will invest 40m about 51m in a brand new ai supercomputer in the uk. It was created to accelerate a rich mix of high performance computing data analytics and ai jobs including training and inference and to be fast to deploy.

Nvidia unveiled its selene ai supercomputer today in tandem with the updated listing of world s fastest computers. Announced at gtc nvidia is now building its supercomputer with the a100 platform across the pond. Nvidia also introduced the pcie form factor of the ampere based a100 gpu.