Nvidia reveals H100 GPU for AI and teases ‘world’s fastest AI supercomputer’
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The H100 die. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia has announced a slew of AI-focused enterprise products at its annual GTC conference. They include details of its new silicon architecture, Hopper; the first datacenter GPU built using that architecture, the H100; a new Grace CPU superchip"; and vague plans to build what the company claims will be the world's fastest AI supercomputer, named Eos.
Nvidia has benefited hugely from the AI boom of the last decade, with its GPUs proving a perfect match for popular, data-intensive deep learning methods. As the AI sector's demand for data compute grows, says Nvidia, it wants to provide more firepower.
In particular, the company stressed the popularity of a type of machine learning system known as a Transformer. This method has been...