At the expected price point it would be nice if it came with a free pied-à-terre in Kensington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington). Just a small studio apartment, nothing special.
Quite possibly, depending on grid-scale renewable deployment. I also am about to install a set of solar panels, so a base level of power will cost me only the depreciation of the PV hardware.
We could condition datacenter installs to providing power to the grid - you want to build a datacenter, you also need to build a wind or solar farm that can fully power its peak load.
Yes, which planet are you on? Australia has recently lowered power prices due to renewables, probably other places will too for similar reasons as the rollout continues.
There's a lot more going on here because the host machine has a boatload (496GB) of expensive LPDDR5x (which is stupidly expensive) that can also be used as unified (but slower) memory to the GPU, 72 ARM64 cores, stupid fast NVlink/QSFP networking, the PSU to support all that etc. etc.
Basically it's the same as a tray in a GB300 NVL72, but in workstation/desktop form. Niche would be AI researchers.
They will... not sell a lot of these. But what a beast.
I am too lazy to price out 496GB of DDR5 but, um, mostly because it is terrifying to see what today's prices look like.
You can't build such a machine out yourself but if you could I suspect the price point would come out about the same.
> You can't build such a machine out yourself but if you could I suspect the price point would come out about the same.
That's kind of the nature of capitalism and price elasticity - the manufacture price only limited the minimum sale price, and sale price usually reflects how much is the market willing to pay for the good.
Where you might save a lot of money is on building something that's very targeted to your needs that matches them better than a GB300 workstation, for a lower price.
But the point of such a machine generally is to have the equivalent of a GB300 NVL72 tray on your desk. It's so that you can do the work that belongs in a production DC eventually. Or at least that's now NVIDIA would like you to use it.
You could build out a complicated multi GPU setup of your own, but the work you do on inference tuning for your kernels etc would not necessarily translate to the real world.
But yes, if you just want to run GLM 5.3 on your own machine, that's a whole other story.
HP’s spec sheet fills in details the platform announcements skipped. The CPU memory is four 128GB SOCAMM modules delivering 396GB/s, and the Grace CPU is soldered to the host processor module rather than socketed. The two pools add up to the 748GB coherent space that lets the GPU address CPU memory directly, which is what makes trillion-parameter inference and fine-tuning of models in the 100 billion parameter class possible on a single box. HP’s footnote on those model sizes is that the harness quantizes at FP4.
I'm just barely starting to wrap my head around mapping model sizes and quants to hardware components and constraints.
I don't get what this device is for.
I a million percent understand wanting 252GB-VRAM, that would get me a 280-320B model like glm-5.3 or deepseek-v4-flash, which would be a massive improvement over my gpt-oss:20b 16GB toy. I would gladly pay a grand for this, I would never pay ten grand for this, and it seems to be priced around a hundred grand.
So obviously the customer is commercial not consumer.
Can anyone planning a project around one of these at work share what their workload is shaped like and how they're modeling price/performance?
For instance, I don't get the 512GB of system memory, I'd gladly drop that to 128 to save money. Am I missing something about commercial workloads? Is a 1T parameter model at 20 tok/s more important to your workload than a 300B one at 60? Is it simply a co-dependency of not the model but the other software you're running on the machine thats using/interacting-with/being-driven-by the model?
Whats your napkin math to justify 100k? Actually thats not even really the question, its more like - whats your napkin math to determine between the "dual linked GB10" use case vs this product's use case vs an 8U supermicro with 4 cards use case.
I find it just misleading by advertising 700GB RAM as AI headline. I could plug a 32GB GPU to my 1.5TB ram server and call it “AI station with 1.5TB+ RAM” just so that you find it actually useless compared to the headline
I don't know about "useless" (it seems quite useful to me) but I do feel mislead. It's unified memory in the same way that my current dGPU has unified memory. I guess nvlink-c2c probably (?) doesn't introduce a bottleneck but it's still two distinct arenas with very different performance characteristics.
7.1TB/s of HBM is not "useless" -- that's 30 times the memory bandwidth of my DGX Spark -- and nobody is expecting such a machine to run "Opus 5" on its own. For such large models even datacentre GB300 NVL72 are multiple trays linked together via NVlink etc. This machine has QSFP ports and ConnectX for linking up for larger models.
It's a workstation, not a rack. It's for AI researchers. I'd love to have one on (err, under) my desk.
https://www.gigabyte.com/in/Enterprise/Tower-Server/W775-V10...
https://www.msi.com/Landing/NVIDIA-DGX-STATION
I think you might need a bit more than that at this price point ...
One listing is 410K for 280 sq/ft coming out at £1464 per square foot, almost exactly 10x the price per sq/ft we paid for our house a few years ago.
So $100K would be £74K which would get you ~50 sq/ft.
We could condition datacenter installs to providing power to the grid - you want to build a datacenter, you also need to build a wind or solar farm that can fully power its peak load.
Basically it's the same as a tray in a GB300 NVL72, but in workstation/desktop form. Niche would be AI researchers.
They will... not sell a lot of these. But what a beast.
I am too lazy to price out 496GB of DDR5 but, um, mostly because it is terrifying to see what today's prices look like.
You can't build such a machine out yourself but if you could I suspect the price point would come out about the same.
That's kind of the nature of capitalism and price elasticity - the manufacture price only limited the minimum sale price, and sale price usually reflects how much is the market willing to pay for the good.
Where you might save a lot of money is on building something that's very targeted to your needs that matches them better than a GB300 workstation, for a lower price.
You could build out a complicated multi GPU setup of your own, but the work you do on inference tuning for your kernels etc would not necessarily translate to the real world.
But yes, if you just want to run GLM 5.3 on your own machine, that's a whole other story.
https://www.guru3d.com/story/nvidia-dgx-spark-achieves-175-f...
I don't get what this device is for.
I a million percent understand wanting 252GB-VRAM, that would get me a 280-320B model like glm-5.3 or deepseek-v4-flash, which would be a massive improvement over my gpt-oss:20b 16GB toy. I would gladly pay a grand for this, I would never pay ten grand for this, and it seems to be priced around a hundred grand.
So obviously the customer is commercial not consumer.
Can anyone planning a project around one of these at work share what their workload is shaped like and how they're modeling price/performance?
For instance, I don't get the 512GB of system memory, I'd gladly drop that to 128 to save money. Am I missing something about commercial workloads? Is a 1T parameter model at 20 tok/s more important to your workload than a 300B one at 60? Is it simply a co-dependency of not the model but the other software you're running on the machine thats using/interacting-with/being-driven-by the model?
Whats your napkin math to justify 100k? Actually thats not even really the question, its more like - whats your napkin math to determine between the "dual linked GB10" use case vs this product's use case vs an 8U supermicro with 4 cards use case.
So it has only 252GB of actual ”AI” memory making it “useless”/toy for actual real world AI workloads(I.e it can’t replace something like opus 5)
It's a workstation, not a rack. It's for AI researchers. I'd love to have one on (err, under) my desk.
What even is this comment?
What is it with those stupid names?
No price, so of course this is not for the smelly working class.