Microsoft and nvidia team up to announce hgx accelerator

Nvidia and Microsoft have formed a new alliance with the aim of giving a significant boost to artificial intelligence technology. To this end, the new HGX-1 hyperscale accelerator was born based on the best technology from the graphics giant, its advanced Tesla P100 cards.

HGX-1 is a giant step for artificial intelligence

The new HGX-1 hyperscale accelerator is an Open-Source project that works in conjunction with Microsoft's Olympus project. HGX-1 arrives to establish a new standard in the field of artificial intelligence l, in this aspect it is very similar to the arrival of ATX on the motherboards of our precious PCs. Thanks to the new standard, they will be able to attend in a much more efficient way. faster and more efficient the needs of a market sector that is experiencing great growth. This new standard has been designed to cover and adjust to the needs of all fields in which artificial intelligence is applied, such as autonomous driving, voice recognition, video analysis, molecular simulations and health care.

This approach provides great flexibility in the words of Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, to integrate into workstations and data centers around the world. The system works through eight Nvidia Tesla P100 accelerators connected to each other through the proprietary NVIDIA NVLink interface and the PCI-Express standard, thus providing an advanced modular design and great capacity to the system to dynamically connect the different GPUs depending on the need. This gives cloud service providers the ability to offer their customers a wide range of CPU and GPU configurations.

This advanced system offers 100 times more performance in the field of deep learning compared to traditional CPU-based servers, while the cost of the system is estimated to be five times less for autonomous driving and ten times less for intelligence inference. artificial.

In our opinion there is no doubt that artificial intelligence is one of the fields of technology with the best future projection today, without any doubt, an alliance between two giants like Nvidia and Microsoft can give you the necessary momentum to advance by leaps and bounds. Let us not forget the crucial role it can have in scientific research in obtaining a better understanding of the different diseases that affect humans and the best way to treat them.

Source: wccftech