Reply to post: Re: Why is the DGX-1 so expensive? Why is it needed?

The hidden horse power driving Machine Learning models

DrBobK
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Re: Why is the DGX-1 so expensive? Why is it needed?

Probably just me stuck thinking in terms of Encore Multimaxes or a few Xeons - I guess with 40,000 cores each core is more likely to be simulating a single neuron rather than a layer - so lots of need for data transfer...

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