Tesla’s in-house supercomputer is something special - but the next will be even better
Tesla adds 1,600 GPUs to its flagship supercomputer
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Tesla’s in-house supercomputer has received an additional 1,600GPUs, a 28% increase on the figure quoted a year ago.
Tesla Engineering Manager Tim Zaman claims this would place the machine 7th in the world by GPU count.
The machine now features a total of 7,360NvidiaA100 GPUs, which are built specifically for data centerservers, but utilize the same architecture as the company’s top-of-the-line GeForce RTX 30-series cards.
Telsa supercomputer upgrade
It’s likely Tesla needs all the processing power it can get right now. The company is currently working on ‘neural nets’, which are used to process the vast quantities of video data that the company’s cars collect.
The latest upgrade may be just the start of Tesla’s high-performance computing (HPC) ambitions.
In June 2020, Elon Musk said “Tesla is developing a neural net training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data”, explaining the planned machine would achieve a performance of over 1 exaFLOPs, which represents one quintillion floating-point operations per second, or 1,000 petaFLOPs.
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Performance of over 1 exaFLOPs would place the machine among the most powerful supercomputers worldwide, as only a few current supercomputers have officially exceeded the exascale barrier, including The Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, United States.
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You might even be able to get a job building the new computer. Muskasked his Twitter followersto “consider joining our AI or computer/chip teams if this sounds interesting”.
Dojo won’t be reliant on Nvidia hardware, however. The planned machine is set to be powered by Tesla’s new D1 Dojo Chip, which the carmaker said could have specifications of up to 362 TFLOPs at its AI Day event.
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Will McCurdy has been writing about technology for over five years. He has a wide range of specialities including cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, cloud computing, payments, artificial intelligence, retail technology, and venture capital investment. He has previously written for AltFi, FStech, Retail Systems, and National Technology News and is an experienced podcast and webinar host, as well as an avid long-form feature writer.
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