Nvidia on Wednesday announced the first AI supercomputer designed for student use, in collaboration with Georgia Tech.
The supercomputer runs atop 160 of Nvidia's H100 GPUs. It would take one of these units a single second to come up with a multiplication function that would take 50,000 students 22 years, according to a release.and a growing crop of heavily-funded startups all battling for a slice of the generative AI pie. Nvidia has seen its revenue soar over the past year, andSign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
So far, students have used the supercomputer in just one class — foundations of machine learning — since the beginning of the semester, but Georgia Tech plans to continue scaling usage. By spring 2025, all of Georgia Tech's undergraduate and graduate students will have access, Arjit Raychowdhury, chair of Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering told CNBC in an interview.in January to enter into its first partnership with a higher education institution.