NVIDIA Puts Forth Ready-Made NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs

NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, a turnkey AI infrastructure, making it possible for organizations to install AI supercomputers with speed.

Available in cluster sizes ranging from 20 to 140 individual NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, DGX SuperPODs are now shipping and expected to be installed in Korea, the U.K., Sweden and India before the end of the year.

Sold in 20-unit modules interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking, DGX SuperPOD systems start at 100 petaflops of AI performance and can scale up to 700 petaflops to run the most complex AI workloads.

“Traditional supercomputers can take years to plan and deploy, but the turnkey NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise helps customers begin their AI transformation today,” says Charlie Boyle, vice president and general manager of DGX systems at NVIDIA. “State-of-the-art conversational AI, recommender systems and computer vision workloads rapidly exceed the capabilities of traditional infrastructure, and our new solution gives customers a fast track to the world’s most advanced, scalable AI infrastructure and NVIDIA expertise.”

Additionally, NVIDIA separately announced plans to build Cambridge-1, an 80-node DGX SuperPOD with 400 petaflops of AI performance. Once deployed by the end of the year, it is reported to be the fastest supercomputer in the U.K. The system will be used for collaborative research within the UK AI and health care community across academia, industry and startups.

Cambridge-1 will help accelerate diverse health care workloads, including drug development with the NVIDIA Clara health care application framework. It will also enable researchers to rapidly analyze volumes of medical information using natural language processing with the specialized NVIDIA BioMegatron model available on the NVIDIA NGC software hub.

Infrastructure for AI Innovation

The DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise was developed through years of research and development in creating a most advanced AI system to power NVIDIA’s own engineering in automotive, health care, conversational AI, recommender systems, data science and computer graphics.

NVIDIA Selene, a 280-node DGX SuperPOD, had top marks on TOP500 and MLPerf results published earlier this year. Its DGX SuperPOD architecture also delivers breakthrough efficiency with Green500 performance of 20 gigaflops/watt.

The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise features all-flash storage that is optimized to meet customers’ specific requirements as well as tdemands of AI workloads. DDN is the first NVIDIA-qualified storage partner for the DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise.

Fully Integrated AI Deployments Across Systems to Software

From customized capacity planning and data center design services to application performance testing and developer operations training, the DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise provides the fastest path to AI innovation at scale. Each DGX SuperPOD is fully racked, stacked and configured by NVIDIA-Certified partners. These NVIDIA AI experts ensure installs are easy, even when building out AI infrastructure with dozens or hundreds of nodes connected by extensive cabling.

Following installation, NVIDIA and certified experts work with customers to ensure their AI workloads are optimized with the latest NVIDIA software available on the NGC hub of cloud-native, GPU-optimized containers, models and industry-specific SDKs.

Availability

The DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise is available from select NVIDIA partners worldwide. Learn more at www.nvidia.com/dgxsuperpod.

In addition to the new DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, the DGX SuperPOD blueprint is available to serve as an industry guide for NVIDIA-Certified partners to plan and deploy their own DGX SuperPOD offerings, complete with services and certified support for NGC software.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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