NVIDIA's CEO reflects on Elon Musk and the xAI team building the world's fastest supercomputer in just 19 days.

“Building a massive factory, liquid-cooled, energized, permitted, in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. And, as far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.

Elon is singular in this understanding of engineering and construction and large systems, marshaling resources. It's unbelievable. //

From the moment that we decided to go, the planning with our engineering team, then all of the infrastructure, all of the logistics and the amount of technology and equipment that came in on that day, to training, 19 days. Incredible.

So, I think what Elon and the X team did is singular. Never been done before.

Just to put in perspective, 100,000 GPUs is easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet, as one cluster. A supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan, and then they deliver the equipment, and it takes one year to get it all working.

We're talking about 19 days.”

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA on the
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, October 13, 2024