Introduced last week, the CloudMatrix 384 Supernode was described as a “nuclear-level product” that matched Nvidia’s NVL72 system in alleviating computing bottlenecks for AI data centres, STAR Market Daily reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources from Huawei.
Nvidia’s NVL72, launched in March last year, features a 72-graphics processing unit (GPU) NVLink domain that functions as a single, powerful GPU, enabling real-time inference for trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs) at speeds 30 times faster than previous generations.
NVLink is a high-speed interconnect technology developed by Nvidia that allows multiple GPUs to communicate with each other and share data more efficiently.
Huawei’s new supernode, currently deployed in the company’s data centres in Wuhu, a city in central Anhui province, achieved 300 petaflops of computing power, compared with the 180 petaflops offered by Nvidia’s NVL72, the report said, citing data from Huawei.
Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
