Deloitte, Nvidia Announce AI Supercomputing Cluster

Deloitte wants to put artificial intelligence (AI) in the hands of its clients with the launch of the Deloitte Center for AI Computing. The supercomputing cluster built on Nvidia’s DGX A100 server chassis is designed to expedite the development of AI applications. Deloitte wants to put artificial intelligence (AI) in the hands of its clients with the launch of the Deloitte Center for AI Computing. The supercomputing cluster built on Nvidia’s DGX A100 server chassis is designed to expedite the development of AI applications. “The Deloitte Center for AI Computing is a pioneering effort that brings together Deloitte’s deep AI experience with the powerful supercomputing capabilities of Nvidia DGX A100 systems to innovate with clients and accelerate their journey from AI experimentation to becoming AI-fueled organizations,” said Jason Girzadas, managing principal at Deloitte Consulting, in a statement. The Deloitte Center for AI Computing is the company’s fourth AI venture following its AI Exploration Lab in Austin, Texas, the AI Factory in Canada, and the Deloitte AI Institute. The system itself is built on Nvidia’s DGX Pod modular rack form factor, which provides integrated connectivity for five of the chipmaker’s DGX A100 servers. This can be scaled up to 140 DGX A100 servers — or 70 DGX Pods — in what Nvidia calls the DGX Super Pod, however, Deloitte hasn’t specified exactly how many DGX A100 servers it is deploying in the new facility. Each DGX A100 server packs eight of Nvidia’s highest performance GPU accelerators to date alongside two 64-core AMD Rome GPUs, 1 TB of system memory, nine Mellanox ConnextX-6 virtual protocol interconnect (VPI) NICs, and 15 TBs of NVMe-based storage. Deloitte claims the cluster will allow the company to accelerate the development of AI applications in a variety of fields including media and telecommunications, government and public services, life sciences and health care, transportation, and financial services. “The Deloitte Center for AI Computing will provide these organizations with a strategic platform, experience, and computing resources to speed the development of a wide range of AI applications, from autonomous vehicles to digital contact centers to public sector innovation,” the company claims.