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Nvidia DGX-2 is 2 petaflop AI supercomputer for $399,000
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangNVIDIA DGX-2 is a server rack with 16 Volta GPUs and Dual Xeon Platinums for $399,000. It packs a total of 81,920 CUDA Cores with 512 GB HBM2 memory and a 14.4 TB/s aggregate bandwidth and 300 GB/s GPU to GPU. The total power consumption of the rack is 10,000 watts and weighs 350 pounds.
DGX-2 provides 10X the processing power of DGX-1 of six months ago, unveiled in September 2017.
It's $399K for the world's most powerful computer. This replaces $3M of 300 dual-CPU servers consuming 180 kilowatts. This is 1/8th the cost, 1/60th of the space, 18th the power.