The first NVIDIA DGX B200 has arrived in the Czech Republic - exclusively at M Computers

NVIDIA DGX B200 arrives in the Czech Republic – exclusive to M Computers

26.3.2024

A new generation of AI computing power has arrived in the Czech Republic. The first NVIDIA DGX B200 server with Blackwell chips – currently the most powerful AI server on the market – is now available at M Computers. This makes us the first partner in the entire region of the Czech Republic and Eastern Europe to have this technology physically in stock and ready for presentations and testing. With eight super-powerful B200 chips and 1440 GB of memory, it can easily handle even the most demanding tasks – including large language models, recommender systems or chatbots.

Investing in the development of AI in the Czech Republic

We are NVIDIA’s key partner for DGX systems in the Czech Republic and Eastern Europe. We have a long-standing commitment to the promotion and development of AI throughout the region. That’s why we purchased the technology with our own funds (NVIDIA did not provide us with a free box, nor did they give us any discounts). We are slowly starting to show the news to the first potential buyers. We want to make modern computing capabilities not only the domain of large American companies, but also realistically available to Czech companies, universities and research institutions.

DGX B200 top performance and parameters

The NVIDIA DGX B200 is designed for the most demanding computations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, language model processing (LLM), simulation and HPC. We are now also able to rent this machine for customer testing. Specifically, we have an NVIDIA DGX system containing 8 Blackwell B200 SXM GPUs, each with 180 GB of HBM3e memory, delivering a total throughput of 64 TB/s. Nvidia adds an InfiniBand 400 Gb/s or BlueField-3 DPU.

In addition to the eight GPUs, the DGX B200 box also includes a regular server with two Intel Xeon Platinum 8570 processors. In total, there are 112 cores at a base frequency of 2.1 GHz with a boost of up to 4 GHz. Also included are 2 TB of RAM and NVMe storage with a capacity of 30 TB. The system comes with the NVIDIA Base Command software stack, a containerized environment, Kubernetes, and other software needed for operation. All of this together creates a complete AI infrastructure ready for deployment.

The box weighs 200 kg and takes up 10 positions (10U) in a typical server room. The DGX B200 is air cooled, requiring large spaces for passive heat sinks and air supply through 20 fans on the front. Professional chips are very demanding on cooling and so the total power consumption of the DGX box is 14 to 15 kilowatts. The entire box is priced at around 14-18 million, graded according to the length of support of three, four or five years.

Check out the DGX B200 in our online configurator at aiserver.eu.

Go to the online configurator

SuperPOD and other systems

In addition to DGX systems, we will also supply complete NVIDIA SuperPOD systems (NVL72 racks), designed for modular construction of AI datacenters, to the Czech and regional market if customers are interested. These are so-called “AI factories” that allow massive scaling of performance according to customer needs. Here too, we provide not only delivery, but also complete architectural design, consultation, installation and operational support.

However, we do not expect these and other whole seagulls to be bought in the Czech Republic in large numbers, because there is a lack of large companies like OpenAI. The largest domestic companies using these technologies probably include Seznam.cz, which uses hundreds of NVIDIA H100s and L4s. A new supercomputer with hundreds of GPUs is also being prepared for purchase by IT4Innovations (the national supercomputing centre), which will also be one of the larger projects in the country. DGX boxes are more prevalent with other customers. Versions with previous AI chips are appearing at universities, for example – CTU has eight DGX-1s, each with eight V100s, Masaryk University uses one DGX H100 640 GB, and VŠB-TUO runs DGX-2 (V100). And for example CEITEC BUT has DGX 100 and DGX A100 640 GB.

The article can be found on Lupa.cz

Export restrictions on the most advanced AI chips

Currently, there is a lot of discussion about how we will be affected by the plans to introduce export limits on powerful AI chips to selected countries, including the Czech Republic, which the US administration introduced on 13 January 2025. M Computers Sales Director Petr Plodík explained the reality of the new measures. In our article, you will find a summary of what the Framework for AI Diffusion means for us, as well as an overview of what we currently know.

More about export limits

Testing

We have a wide range of NVIDIA GPU cards available to test for demanding tasks. We will also be happy to demonstrate or loan you the new DGX B200. Get in touch or fill in the form below.