ScaleMatrix and Nvidia Launch 'Deploy Anywhere' DGX HPC and AI in a Controlled Enclosure

HPC and AI in a phone booth: ScaleMatrix and Nvidia announced today at the SC19 conference in Denver a joint offering that puts up to 13 petaflops of Nvidia DGX-1 compute power in an air conditioned, water-cooled ScaleMatrix Dynamic Density Control (DDC) "clean room" cabinet. Built for modular deployments and designed for high-demand AI workloads, ScaleMatrix said its ruggedized cabinet can be erected "anywhere power and a roof exist," and it includes biometric security and fire suppression. At the high end of the product line is a composable SKU comprised of the Nvidia DGX-1 system, a single rack running at 42kW, containing 13 DGX-1 units and delivering 13 Pflops of throughput. Other configurations come with a DGX POD deployment, four DGX-2s, run at 43kW and deliver 8 Pflops of compute, the companies said. The units will be sold with storage and networking following DGX POD reference architecture designs, such as NetApp's ONTAP AI solution.