back to article Nvidia's supercomputer-in-a-box needs 3.2kW of juice

Nvidia is going to sell a $129,000 3200W supercomputer-in-a-box called the DGX-1 from June. It has eight 16GB Pascal P100 GPUs, two Intel Xeons, 10GbE, and NVLink interconnects. It can run at 170TFLOPS if you use 16-bit floating-point numbers, or 42TFLOPS if you use 64-bit floating point. It sits in a 3U box and is aimed at …

  1. NoneSuch Silver badge
    Joke

    Sounds like it will be an awesome machine, until someone loads Windows onto it. :P

    1. Brian Miller

      They tried that...

      Yeah, Microsoft tried that, back in the day. Windows on RISC. Poor MIPS and Alpha. Really, what's the point when the kernel isn't optimized for anything, really?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: They tried that...

        "Poor MIPS and Alpha"

        Actually, NT on Alpha was quite good. Trouble was, Microsoft didn't release Win 2000 for Alpha.

  2. Jon Massey
    WTF?

    16-bit floats?

    Odd that they've given the 170TFlops figure for 16-bit rather than the standard 32-bit single-precision float figure. Shenanigans?

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