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After alerting the media at the Supercomputing Conference in 2016, Nvidia introduced the DGX-1 supercomputer at GTC 2016, as the world's first deep learning supercomputer to meet the unlimited computing demands of artificial intelligence. The price was $149,000 and came equipped with eight Tesla V100s GPUs, linked together via next-gen Nvidia NVLink interconnect technology that ups the bandwidth per GPU ...

Jon Peddie

After alerting the media at the Supercomputing Conference in 2016, Nvidia introduced the DGX-1 supercomputer at GTC 2016, as the world's first deep learning supercomputer to meet the unlimited computing demands of artificial intelligence. The price was $149,000 and came equipped with eight Tesla V100s GPUs, linked together via next-gen Nvidia NVLink interconnect technology that ups the bandwidth per GPU to 300GB/s. The rest of the system consists of dual, 20-core Intel Xeon E5-2698 CPUs, 512GB of RAM, four 1.92TB SSDs Nvidia also unveiled the new DGX Station a standalone AI workstation with up to four Tesla V100 16GB cards
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