Computing giant announces world’s first supercomputer in a box

Q.  Computing major Nvidia has announced the world’s first supercomputer in a box. What is it called?
- Published on 17 Aug 16

a. DGX-1
b. DGX-2
c. DGX-3
d. DGX-4

ANSWER: DGX-1
 
Computing group Nvidia has announced the world’s first supercomputer in a box- DGX-1.
  • It has 170 teraflops and the machine is designed to tackle deep learning and AI, research areas requiring computing power.
  • DGX-1 uses the company’s recently developed Pascal architecture which shows up in the supercomputer.
  • DGX-1 has eight Tesla GP100 GPUs with 16 gigabytes of memory.
  • The supercomputer also has 512 GB of RAM and four terabyte solid state hard drives.
  • Machine comes pre-loaded with an array of tools for developers namely Nvidia Cuda, a deep neutral network library that crated and designed said networks.
  • Alongside Cuda, an array of standard DNN frameworks including Caffee, Theano and Torch were introduced.
  • DNN networks allow computers to emulate the human mind to recognise things; DNNS can do everything from writing your mail to making the perfect music video.

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