Nvidia's latest supercomputer is like 'a datacenter in a box'

Move over, Watson – if you haven't already. Nvidia has just unveiled the DGX-1, the "world's first deep learning supercomputer" built on the firm's newly announced Pascal architecture.Designed to power the machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts of businesses through applying GPU-accelerated computing, the DGX-1 delivers throughput equal to that of 250 servers running Intel Xeon processors.Specifically, the DGX-1 can pump out 170 teraflops – that's 170,000 floating opera