Draft:Israel-1

Israel-1 is a supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications built in Israel by Nvidia.

History
In May 2023, the Nvidia company, which has a large development center in Israel, announced that it would build a supercomputer in Israel in the field of artificial intelligence. The computer is expected to be initially used by Nvidia for research and development purposes and for collaborations with the industry, and later will be available as part of Nvidia's supercomputing service in the cloud, NVIDIA DGX Cloud, so that other organizations and entities can use it.

The first phase of the computer began operating in November 2023, and completion of its construction is expected in the second quarter of 2024.

Features
In the first phase, the computer includes 128 Dell PowerEdge XE9680 systems (from the Dell PowerEdge server line), in which 1,024 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB graphics processors, more than 40 Nvidia Spectrum-4 ethernet switches and 1,280 NVIDIA chips BlueField-3 and SuperNIC developed in the development center of Nvidia in Israel. This vehicle provides performance of 4 exa-flops (‎4×1018‎) for artificial intelligence applications and 65 peta-flops (‎65×1015‎) for scientific applications.

In the second and final stage, the computer will contain exactly double the amount of what it contains in the first stage: 256 Dell PowerEdge XE9680 systems, with more than 34 million CUDA cores and one million Tensor cores of the fourth generation. 256 XE9680 systems will contain a total of 2,560 NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU and SuperNIC chips, and over 80 Spectrum-4 Ethernet switches. This vehicle will provide performance of 8 exa-flops (‎8×1018‎) for artificial intelligence applications and 130 peta-flops (‎130×1015‎) for scientific applications.