From MIPS to exaflops in mere decades: Compute power is exploding, and it will transform AI
April 7, 2025
At the recent Nvidia GTC conference, the company unveiled what it described as the first single-rack system of servers capable of one exaflop — one billion billion, or a quintillion, floating-point operations (FLOPS) per second. This breakthrough is based on the latest GB200 NVL72 system, which incorporates Nvidia’s latest Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs). A standard computer rack is…