Produktbeskrivning

Rapid growth in workload complexity, data size, and the proliferation of emerging workloads like generative AI are ushering in a new era of computing, accelerating scientific discovery, improving productivity, and revolutionizing content creation. As models continue to explode in size and complexity to take on next-level challenges, an increasing number of workloads will need to run on local devices. Next-generation workstation platforms will need to deliver high-performance computing capabilities to support these complex workloads.

The NVIDIA A800 40GB Active GPU accelerates data science, AI, and HPC workflows with 432 third-generation Tensor Cores to maximize AI performance and ultra-fast and efficient inference capabilities. With third-generation NVIDIA NVLink technology, A800 40GB Active offers scalable performance for heavy AI workloads, doubling the effective memory footprint and enabling GPU-to-GPU data transfers up to 400 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of bidirectional bandwidth. This board is an AI-ready development platform with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and delivers workstations ideally suited to the needs of skilled AI developers and data scientists.

 

Egenskaper

Amplified graphics performance when paired with the power of NVIDIA RTX
To support display functionality and deliver high-performance graphics for visual applications, the computing capabilities of NVIDIA A800 40GB Active are designed to be paired with NVIDIA RTX -accelerated GPUs. NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation, RTX A4000, and T1000 8GB GPUs are certified to run in tandem with A800 40GB Active, delivering powerful real-time ray tracing and AI-accelerated graphics performance in a single-slot form factor.

Data science and data analytics
Accelerate end-to-end data science and analytics workflows with powerful performance to extract meaningful insights from large-scale datasets quickly. By combining the high-performance computing capabilities of the A800 40GB Active with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, data practitioners can leverage a large collection of libraries, tools, and technologies to accelerate data science workflows - from data prep and training to inference.

Training and development
With 40GB of HBM2 memory and powerful third-generation Tensor Cores that deliver up to 2x the performance of the previous generation, the A800 40GB Active GPU delivers incredible performance to conquer demanding AI development and training workflows on workstation platforms, including data preparation and processing, model optimization and tuning, and early-stage training. The NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform accelerates and simplifies deploying AI at scale, allowing organizations to develop once and deploy anywhere. Coupling this powerful software platform with the A800 40GB Active GPU enables AI developers to build, iterate, and refine AI models on workstations using included frameworks, simplifying the scaling process and reserving costly data center computing resources for more expensive, large-scale computations.

Inference
Inference is where AI delivers results, providing actionable insights by operationalizing trained models. With 432 third-generation Tensor Cores and 6,912 CUDA Cores, A800 40GB Active delivers 2X the inference operation performance versus the previous generation with support for structural sparsity and a broad range of precisions, including TF32, INT8, and FP64. AI developers can use NVIDIA inference software including NVIDIA TensorRT and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server that are part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise to simplify and optimize the deployment of AI models at scale.

Generative AI
Using neural networks to identify patterns and structures within existing data, generative AI applications enable users to generate original content from a wide variety of inputs and outputs, including images, sounds, animation, and 3D models. Leverage the NVIDIA generative AI solution, NeMo Framework, included in NVIDIA AI Enterprise along with NVIDIA A800 40GB Active GPU for easy, fast, and customizable generative AI model development.

High-performance computing
The A800 40GB Active GPU delivers incredible performance for GPU-accelerated computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications. Engineering and product development professionals can run large-scale simulations for finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), construction engineering management (CEM), and other engineering analysis codes in full FP64 precision with incredible speed, shortening development timelines and accelerating time to value. With the addition of RTX-accelerated GPUs providing display capabilities, scientists and engineers can visualize large-scale simulations and models in full design fidelity.

Energy and geosciences
With 9.7 TFLOPS of FP64 compute performance, the A800 40GB Active GPU enables geoscience professionals to power the latest AI-augmented exploration and production software workflows and accelerate simulation processes to gain faster insight into subsurface data. For large-scale datasets, two A800 40GB Active GPUs can be connected with NVLink to provide 80GB of memory and twice the processing power.

Life sciences
With the A800 40GB Active professionals across life science disciplines can accelerate complex data processing tasks, enable faster discovery, and improve decision-making. AI-accelerated life science applications like genomics sequencing, medical imaging, and personalized medicine can benefit from faster training and inference performance to accelerate the analysis of large datasets. For complex simulations and data processing tasks requiring high accuracy, FP64 capabilities allow for scientific applications like molecular dynamics, drug discovery, and genomic analysis to run with higher accuracy and precision, yielding more reliable results.

 

Teknisk specifikation

Typ av enhet	GPU-beräkningsprocessor
Grafikmotor	NVIDIA A800
CUDA-kärnor	6912
Processteknik	7 nm
Egenskaper	Dual Slot Fan Cooler, Nvidia CUDA-teknik, NVIDIA NVLink-teknologi, NVIDIA Ampere GPU-teknik, 9,7 Tflops flyttalsberäkningar med dubbelprecision, 19,5 Tflops mex enkelprecisions-flytpunktsåtergivning, 312 Tflops max halvprecisions-flytpunktsåtergivning, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)-teknologi, 432 third-generation Tensor Cores per GPU, Active Thermal Solution

Storlek	40 GB
Teknik	HBM2
Bussbredd	5120-bitars
Bandbredd	1555.2 GBps

Operativsystem erfordras	Oracle Solaris 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, Ubuntu 18.04, openSUSE 15, Linux Fedora 31, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15.x, FreeBSD 11.x, Windows 10 (64-bit)
Extra krav	16-stifts PCI Express Gen 5-strömanslutning

Energiförbrukning vid drift	240 Watt
Inkluderade tillbehör	16-stifts till 2x 8-stifts strömadapter
Medföljande programvara	NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Service och support	Begränsad garanti - 3 år