Industrial demand
Nvidia’s DGX chips are in excessive demand in trade, although, and it’s extra possible that Micro Heart’s one-Spark restrict is to forestall companies scooping them up by the rack-load to run AI functions of their information facilities.
The DGX Spark accommodates an Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, 128GB of unified system reminiscence, a ConnectX-7 sensible NIC for connecting two Spark’s in parallel, and as much as 4TB of storage in a bundle simply 150mm (about 6 inches) sq..
It consumes 240W {of electrical} energy and delivers 1 petaflop of efficiency at FP4 precision — that’s a million billion floating level operations with four-bit precision per second. As compared, Nvidia stated, its authentic DGX-1 supercomputer based mostly on its Pascal chip structure and launched in 2016 delivered 170 teraflops (170,000 billion operations per second) at FP16 precision, however value $129,000 and consumed 3,200W. It additionally weighed 60kg, in comparison with the Spark’s 1.2kg or 2.65 kilos.
Nvidia received’t be the one firm promoting compact programs based mostly on the DGX Spark design: It stated that companion programs shall be obtainable from Acer, Asus, Dell Applied sciences, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, and MSI.
This text initially appeared on Computerworld.
