Nvidia upgrades its DGX SaturnV cluster with Tesla V100 chips
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Nvidia has a lot to talk about at the 2017 Supercomputing Conference, thanks to the presence of its GPUs inside 34 recently-introduced members of the latest TOP500 supercomputer list. Out of those half-thousand machines, 87 now proudly boast Nvidia hardware inside. Furthermore, the company's wares power 14 of the top 20 most efficient supercomputer clusters on Earth. If all that wasn't enough, the company now announced a Volta upgrade to its own DGX SaturnV cluster.
The specs for a single Tesla V100 chip are pretty impressive: 21 billion transistors running at up to 1455 MHz, 5120 stream processors, and 16 GB of on-package HBM2 memory delivering 900 GB/s of maximum theoretical bandwidth. A DGX-1 node packs eight of these ...