NVIDIA Project DIGITS puts an AI supercomputer at your fingertips

Tech giant NVIDIA announced Project DIGITS, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, on Monday, January 6.

It’s a personal device that allows AI researchers, data scientists, and students to harness the power of the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform.

Project DIGITS uses the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which offers a petaflop of AI computing performance.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines a “petaflop” as 1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. 

This computing power facilitates prototyping, fine-tuning, and running AI models. Moreover, this AI supercomputer can operate on your own desktop system.

The GB10 Superchip enables Project DIGITS to deliver peerless performance using only a standard electrical outlet. Also, this supercomputer has the following components: 

• Blackwell GPU providing 1 PFLOP FP4 AI Compute
• Grace CPU with 20 Arm Cores
• 128GB Low-Power DDR5X, High-Bandwidth Unified Memory
• 4TB of NVMe storage
• ConnectX (NCCL, RDMA, GPUDirect)
• Connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB)

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Project DIGITS also opens access to an extensive NVIDIA AI software suite for experimentation and prototyping.

Then, NVIDIA Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM lets users produce their final AI projects and launch them with enterprise-grade security.

This AI supercomputer will be available in May 2025 starting at $3,000.

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“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry,” said NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. 

“With Project DIGITS, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers.”

“Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.”