Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, is the most visible Linux and open-source business in Vegas. While neither Canonical nor anyone else is showing off a new Linux desktop, the company, in partnership with Nvidia, is demonstrating Ubuntu Linux running on the NVIDIA DGX Spark. This is a desktop supercomputer featuring an Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip with 128 GB of RAM and 4 TB of storage for $3,999. Now, this is my kind of desktop PC.
The DGX Spark is powered by Nvidia's new GB10 chip, a compact version of the Grace-Blackwell Superchip that is also used in the large NVL72 data center systems. The GB10 combines a GPU and CPU in a single system-on-a-chip and uses an NVLink connection with a bandwidth of 600 GB/s. The GPU can deliver up to 1 petaFLOP of FP4 performance or 31 teraFLOPS at FP32 precision, comparable to a high-end consumer card, but with significantly more memory.
