If you've ever wanted to take a look inside a supercomputer, Nvidia has an absolute treat for you.
The artificial intelligence technology giant, which recently overtook Amazon and Google parent Alphabet to become the third most valuable American company, has lifted the curtain on Eos, its ranked data center-scale supercomputer as one of the fastest in the world.
Eos was first presented at the Supercomputing 2023 trade show and is currently ranked ninth in the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Optimized for AI workloads
Eos, named after the Greek goddess who opens the gates of dawn every day, is an expansive Nvidia DGX SuperPOD that serves as Nvidia's development center for advances in artificial intelligence, leveraging accelerated computing infrastructure and fully optimized software .
The Eos supercomputer is built with 576 Nvidia DGX H100 systems, Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, plus software, and is capable of delivering a whopping 18.4 exaflops of FP8 AI performance. Each DGX H100 system is equipped with eight Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs, resulting in a total of 4,608 H100 GPUs.
As you would expect from the world's largest AI hardware provider, the Eos architecture is optimized for AI workloads that demand ultra-low latency and high-performance interconnectivity across a large cluster of accelerated compute nodes.
Eos network architecture supports data transfer speeds of up to 400 Gb/s, resulting in the rapid movement of large data sets essential to handling substantial AI workloads, including LLM training, recommendation systems and quantum simulations.
To see what the inside of Nvidia's Eos supercomputer looks like and understand what it's capable of, watch the short video below.
