Nvidia Just Made the Most Energy-Efficient Supercomputer of All-Time

In Brief Chip and graphics card maker Nvidia has debuted the DGX SaturnV, an ultra efficient in-house supercomputer that now ranks among the world’s 500 most powerful computers. The SaturnV demonstrates the growing market among well-funded technology companies for in-house supercomputers that aren’t managed by governments or universities. When technologists think of “supercomputer” they usually imagine government-owned computers like China’s TaihuLight or public-private partnerships like the DOE-IBM’s planned Summit. Private in-house supercomputers are much rarer. That makes Nvidia’s new supercomputer, the DGX SaturnV, even more surprising. Not only has Nvidia revealed its own supercomputer, but the machine cracked TOP500’s list of the 500 most powerful computers and took the number one spot as the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputer. The DGX SaturnV has 63,488GB of RAM and 60,512 Intel Xeon E5-2698v4…


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