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    PCMag Middle East Computers & Electronics Components

    Nvidia, Amazon Tease 6x


    Performance Boost to
    Upcoming Supercomputer
    The companies revise the Project Ceiba
    supercomputer to have six times more computing
    power than originally envisioned thanks to Nvidia's
    new Blackwell GPU architecture.

    by Michael Kan
    Mar 19, 2024

    (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

    Nvidia’s ambitions to build one of the world’s


    fastest supercomputers are becoming even
    grander.

    The upcoming supercomputer, dubbed Project


    Ceiba, was originally announced in November in
    partnership with Amazon. But on Monday, the
    companies announced they planned on
    upgrading the machine with a “6x performance
    increase.”

    Nvidia will harness its newly announced


    Blackwell GPU architecture, the successor to its
    Hopper-based H100 GPUs. Swapping in
    Blackwell will enable the supercomputer to reach
    a processing power of 414 exaflops, up from a
    mere 65 exaflops.

    To pull this off, Nvidia plans on installing 20,736


    Blackwell B200 GPUs inside the supercomputer,
    alongside 10,368 Grace CPUs. All that computing
    power will be hosted through Amazon’s AWS
    cloud service.

    It remains unclear when Project Ceiba will be


    completed. But we’re curious to see where the
    supercomputer will rank once it’s up and
    running.

    The current most powerful supercomputer,


    Frontier, can reach over 1.1 exaflops when
    measured using the Linpack benchmark.
    Microsoft’s cloud supercomputer Eagle, which
    was built with 14,400 Nvidia H100 GPUs, ranks
    third and is able to reach 0.56 exaflops.

    Nvidia didn’t say how it arrived at the 414 exaflop


    number. But the company probably used an AI
    inference performance measurement rather
    than a traditional supercomputing benchmark.

    As for Project Ceiba, Nvidia plans on using the


    machine for research and development,
    including “advancing the application of AI to
    graphics and simulation, digital biology, robotics,
    self-driving cars, climate prediction, and more,”
    the company said. The machine will also be used
    to develop large language models, such as
    OpenAI’s GPT-4.

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    About Michael Kan

    I've been with PCMag since October

    2017, covering a wide range of topics,

    including consumer electronics, cybersecurity,

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