AI is transforming almost every industry in more ways than ever thought possible previously. It’s only fitting, then, that it transitions the size and possibilities of personal computers to exponential capabilities. To that accord, Asus has unveiled the Ascent GX10, a mini-supercomputer designed for your work desk. Created with NVIDIA’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip in the heart, the new PC is envisioned to bring “transformative power to every developer’s fingertip.”
The tiny, white brick-like Ascent GX10, is a PC you can pair with your choice of keyboard and mouse and transcend into a world of limitless computing. The device, integrated with Grace Blackwell SoC, can put the power of a “petaflops-scale AI supercomputer” in the hands of developers, data scientists, and AI researchers, equipping them to push the boundaries of AI sitting right at home in front of their usual desk.
Designer: Asus
With the ever-increasing size and complexity of generative AI models, the need for PCs with substantial memory and computing power is increasing manifold. The Ascent GX10, with 1,000 AI TOPS processing power and 128GB of coherent unified system memory, could make the powerful and efficient desktop solution developers now require when prototyping, tuning, and inferencing large AI models.
The heart of the Ascent GX10 is the advanced GB10 Superchip designed by NVIDIA on the Grace Blackwell architecture. It has been specially optimized for compact form factor PC, which many other companies including NVIDIA, Dell and HP have come to embrace, and should soon have their iterations of the computers out. Leveraging the prowess of the GB10 chip and its Blackwell GPU – comprising 5th generation Tensor Cores and FP4 support – the Ascent GX10 can deliver an output of 1000 TOPS of AI processing power.
This makes the GX10 a “powerful and economical desktop” proposition for managing large-scale AI models. It arrives in a compact white box with a carved pattern on top, has a visible power button, and a connectivity port. Under that hood, a high-performance NVIDIA Grace CPU with a 20-core Arm processor together with the 1,000 AI TOPS processing power and 128GB of unified memory can allow developers to carry out advanced AI model development and fine-tune or inference the “latest generation of reasoning AI models of up to 200-billion parameters.”
In addition to enhancing data pre-processing, optimizing memory-intensive AI workloads, and real-time inferencing; Asus enables Ascent GX10 to seamlessly integrate with other systems. This is possible with the NVIDIA ConnectX network interface cards (NICs), which come integrated, and allow two GX10 systems to link together. The might of two of these little powerhouses can then, according to the company “handle even larger models, such as Llama 3.1’s 405 billion parameters.”
Beyond the local competence, the Ascent GX10 can let users seamlessly transition from desktop environments, and then on to accelerated cloud data centers without any code adjustments. This can permit AI developers, data scientists et al, to develop AI models without any computing limitations. Asus has not yet delivered a word on when the GX10 will launch or its pricing structure, but we are hopeful it will be in the accessible range.
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