If you’ve ever wanted to take a look inside a supercomputer, Nvidia has an absolute treat for you.
The AI tech giant, which recently overtook both Amazon and Google’s parent company Alphabet to become the third most valuable US company, has pulled back the curtain on Eos, its data center-scale supercomputer, which is among the fastest in the world.
First unveiled at the Supercomputing 2023 trade show, Eos currently ranks ninth on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Optimized for AI workloads
Named after the Greek goddess who opens the gates of dawn every day, Eos is a comprehensive Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, serving as Nvidia’s development center for AI breakthroughs, utilizing 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 can deliver 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, Eos’ architecture is optimized for AI workloads that require ultra-low latency, high throughput interconnectivity across a large cluster of accelerated compute nodes.
Eos’ network architecture supports data transfer rates of up to 400 Gb/s, resulting in the rapid movement of large data sets essential for processing substantial AI workloads, including training LLMs, recommender systems, and quantum simulations.
Watch the short video below to see what it looks like inside Nvidia’s Eos supercomputer and to understand what it’s capable of.