Nvidia’s H100 enterprise GPU sees huge workflow performance boosts
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Nvidia has announced its new H100 Tensor Core GPUs, as well as numerous partnerships with server manufacturers for inclusion in their next-generation products.
The company made this known during a special address (opens in new tab) at Supercomputing 2022, while a next press release (opens in new tab) claimed that “dozens” of new servers will benefit from H100, including machines from Asus, Dell, HP Enterprise and Lenovo.
The unveiling of a new GPU, which comes with a five-year license to Nvidia AI enterprise (opens in new tab) software, is part of a strategy that will put its artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks and tools in the hands of as many companies as possible.
NVIDIA H100
The company noted that AI already has several key use cases, “from medical imaging to weather models and safety alert systems.”
By giving away the systems that hope to streamline the production of new AI workflows, the company is betting on even more implementations of AI coming to light in the near future.
“By providing a universal scientific computing platform that accelerates both principled numerical and AI methods, [Nvidia is] giving scientists a tool to make discoveries that benefit humanity,” explained Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
Nvidia also claims to want to “boost” scientific discoveries, and has updated its CUDA, cuQuantum, and DOCA acceleration libraries accordingly to provide better performance for quantum computing and simulation workflows.
Tom’s hardware (opens in new tab) has reported significant improvements in efficiency, citing the Flatiron Institute’s Henri supercomputer, which debuted in the Top500 and Green500 lists this week.
Its energy consumption is 31 kW, which translates into an energy efficiency of 65,091 GFLOPS/Watt, which earned it a world record.
Of course, there are countless other aspects that contribute to overall efficiency, including air cooling, but the improvements delivered by the H100 GPU have helped the supercomputer’s success somewhat.