NVIDIA’s Israel-1 Ranks No. 34 in the TOP500 List of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers

The fastest AI supercomputer in the country, accelerated by the Israel-developed NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking platform, makes the first appearance of an Israeli supercomputer on the TOP500 list in nearly a decade.

Israel-1, the most powerful AI supercomputer in Israel, is ranked No. 34 in the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, revealed today at the 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

This marks the first appearance of Israel-1, announced in 2023, on the TOP500 list, and represents the highest ranking achieved by an Israeli supercomputer in over 20 years. Israel-1’s inclusion in the list, represents the first appearance of an Israeli supercomputer on TOP500 in nearly a decade.Israel-1 was announced at Computex 2023 to be used as a testbed for the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform’s reference designs, collaboration with partners, and for internal research and development. In November 2023 NVIDIA announced the completion of its first phase and availability for use by the company’s teams, as well as select partners.

“Israel-1 is a growth engine that drives innovation and helps position the Israeli ecosystem at the forefront of the AI revolution,” said Gilad Shainer, Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA, “We look forward to seeing all the scientific discoveries, technological advancements and groundbreaking innovations it will bring to the world.”

The Israel-1 cluster that was submitted to the TOP500 consists of 117 HGX H100 systems supplied by Dell Technologies, integrating a total of 936 NVIDIA H100 80GB GPUs. It is accelerated by the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform, powered by the tight coupling of the NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch with the NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC.

NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform, developed at NVIDIA’s R&D center in Israel, is now represented in the TOP500 list by two systems, Israel-1 and the Japanese cloud provider GMO Internet Group’s “GMO GPU Cloud” supercomputer.Israel-1 features 256 HGX H100, integrating a total of 2,048 NVIDIA H100 80GB GPUs with more than 34 million CUDA cores and over 1 million fourth-generation Tensor Cores, 2,560 BlueField-3 SuperNIC, and dozens of Spectrum-4 switches. In the future it will expand the reach of the NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing service into the region, providing the power of AI infrastructure to the local ecosystem.

Credit: NVIDIA