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| Tesla launched the world's fifth largest supercomputer |
Tesla has launched a new supercomputer which is the fifth most powerful computer in the world and will be the predecessor of the future supercomputer called Dojo.
It is used to train the neural networks that power Tesla cars and future artificial intelligence for self-driving.
Tesla has clearly focused on in-car and out-of-car computing power in recent years.
The company needs a computer powerful enough to run its self-driving software on it. On the other hand, foreign supercomputers are needed to train autonomous driving programs powered by neural networks and powered by large amounts of fleet data.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mocked Project Dojo, which apparently consists of a supercomputer capable of performing exaFLOP floating point operations per second, making it one of the most powerful computers in the world.
Tesla has been developing the Dojo for several years, and Musk has always hinted that it should be ready this year.
But that's why the company has developed more supercomputers on its way to the dojo.
Tesla's evolution of the supercomputer:
Tesla CEO Andre Karpathi revealed his latest findings in a speech at the 2021 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference.
In the letter, Karpati thanked the company's supercomputer team and showed off their latest addition, the third Tesla supercomputer.
The company has shown some amazing specs with this new computer that will make it the fifth most powerful computer in the world:
- 5760 graphics processor.
- 1.8 xaflop.
- Store 10 PB NVME.
- The total transfer capacity is 640 terabytes per second.
Karpathi commented on this work: “We have a neural network and a 1.5 PB dataset that requires a lot of computational effort. For us, computer vision is the basis of our actions and the skills of robot assistants.
"We have to train huge neural networks and run a lot of tests," he added. That's why we invested a lot of money in information technology. We have an 80 GB version of the 8x A100 computer with 720 nodes. I think it is the fifth in the world.
On the other hand, Tesla engineers didn't want to wipe out the Dojo project. But he said it would be a better supercomputer compared to the current Tesla team, and it has been optimized for neural network training.
In addition, Musk previously said that the company plans to ship supercomputers to other companies. So he can train his neural network on it.