NVIDIA authorization for DGX-1

Despite the very hectic end of the year, we were able to meet all the authorization conditions of NVIDIA for the area of machine learning and those for its flagship DGX-1, which boasts the designation of “the fastest way to machine learning”.  We are thus building on our partnership with NVIDIA in the area Accelerated computing (GPGPU accelerators for the area of HPC in particular).


NVIDIA DGX-1

NVIDIA DGX

Machine learning is in times of rapid development, and NVIDIA is one of the world’s leaders in the area of hardware, and now, also software for accelerated machine learning.  The dedicated NVIDIA DGX-1 server and the powerful workstation NVIDIA DGX Station are the result of its work. Both machines are based on NVIDIA’s most powerful iron and a fine-tuned software environment that includes a pre-installed and fine-tuned machine learning environment.   And it is these two technological jewels that can be purchased in the Czech and Slovak Republics thanks to our company.

NVIDIA zrychlení

Acceleration of the learning phase against the traditional CPU computing environment and GPU environment vs. NVIDIA DGX-1.

Hardware DGX-1

Let’s take a more detailed look at the NVIDA machines, first in terms of  hardware.

ParametrDGX-1DGX Station
GPUs8× Tesla V1004× Tesla V100
Výkon (GPU FP16)1 PetaFLOPS0,5 PetaFLOPS
GPU paměť128 GB celkem64 GB celkem
CPU2× E5-2698 v4 2.2GHz (20 jader)E5-2698 v4 2.2GHz (20 jader)
NVIDIA CUDA cores40 96020 480
NVIDIA Tensor cores5 1202 560
RAM512 GB256 GB
HDD4× 1,92TB SSD4× 1,92TB SSD
NetworkDual 10GbE, 4× 100Gb EDR InfinibandDual 10GbE
Maximální příkon3 200 W1 500 W

Both NVIDIA DGX-1 and NVIDIA DGX Station are equipped with the latest and fastest accelerators in existence – NVIDA Tesla V100 (NVLink version) – DGX Station with four cards, DGX-1 with as much as eight cards!

Software package DGX-1

What is a lot more interesting though is the already-mentioned software package of the offered NVIDIA machines. Both offer the same machine learning environments (e.g. Caffe, Cafe 2, Theano, TensorFlow, Torch, or MXNet) that are pre-installed and, more importantly, performance-tuned and an intuitive environment for data analysts (NVIDIA Digits).  All this is elegantly packaged in Docker containers.  According to NVIDIA, an environment that is tuned thus has a 30 % higher performance for applications in the area of machine learning as compared to applications deployment only on NVIDIA hardware as such.   The main advantage of the pre-installed environment is its deployment speed, which is a matter of hours.

NVIDIA DGX systems SW stack

NVIDIA DGX systems SW stack

If you would like more information or are interested in trying and testing the latest NVIDIA technology, please do not hesitate to contact us

NVIDIA DGX Station

NVIDIA DGX Station