Nvidia announces dgx and hgx computing stations based on gpus volta

During a recent conference held by NVIDIA in the framework of the GTC 2017 event in San José, California, the company announced several products aimed at artificial intelligence and deep learning, including the Tesla V100 graphics processor and two computing machines called Nvidia DGX -1 and HGX-1, both based on Volta GPUs.

If already a single Tesla V100 graphics card is impressive, NVIDIA has incorporated eight of these cards in a single unit to form the DGX-1 computing station oriented for professional use.

NVIDIA DGX AND HGX, two new NVIDIA Volta-based computing machines

According to NVIDIA, this box can replace 400 standard servers and has a computing power of 960 TFLOPS. The price of this equipment is $ 149, 000 and Nvidia expects to deliver the first units in the third quarter of 2017.

Additionally, NVIDIA has also introduced a lower-powered version of this unit called DGX, which features four Tesla V100 graphics cards, 3 DisplayPort outputs, and 480 TFLOPS computing power, all priced at $ 69, 000.

Additionally, in collaboration with Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA also created a cloud-based computing unit called HGX-1, which uses a water-cooling system. In the same way as the DGX-1, this team has eight Tesla V100 cards, although its price is unknown for now. However, Microsoft is known to plan to use Volta for both its own applications and Azure clients.

Aside from being used for software applications, Nvidia hopes that processors and boards based on the Volta architecture will power other physical devices that require learning technologies, such as robots or autonomous cars of various shapes and sizes. One of these projects is from Airbus and aims to create an autopilot aircraft capable of taking off horizontally and carrying two passengers.