Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build ‘massive’ AI supercomputer
The two computing tech giants will collaborate to create one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world." | Image: Nvidia / Microsoft Nvidia has announced a multi-year collaboration" with Microsoft to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world," designed to handle the huge computing workloads needed to train and scale AI. The collaboration will see Nvidia utilizing Microsoft's scalable virtual machine instances to accelerate advances in generative AI models like DALL-E.
Based on Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure, the AI supercomputer will use tens of thousands of Nvidia's powerful H100 and A100 data center GPUs and its Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform. According to Nvidia, the combination of Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and Nvidia's GPUs, networking, and full AI suite will allow more enterprises to train, deploy, and scale AI -...