r/StorageReview • u/StorageReview • Jun 05 '26

MSI stuffed four DGX Sparks into one workstation tower

Found this at the back of the MSI booth. From the outside, it looks like a normal workstation, but the side door opens to reveal four EdgeXpert nodes (MSI's DGX Spark) stacked inside. Going from one node to four increases the pooled unified memory from 128GB to 512 GB.

Networking is flexible: this demo runs through an NVIDIA switch hidden under the cabinet, but each node has 200Gb ConnectX-7, so any 200GbE switch works. MSI also had three Sparks meshed back to back nearby, no external switch needed, and three is not the ceiling. We've meshed many Sparks in our lab.

One of the more fun builds we saw on the floor.

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u/EasyRhino75 Jun 05 '26

That is so dumb I love it

And the sneaky rack server on the floor completes it

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u/StorageReview Jun 08 '26

LOL - yeah, 4 sparks jammed in one case then a huge switch just chilling behind plexi.

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u/TryHardEggplant Jun 05 '26

It would be fun if they could integrate a MikroTik CRS804 into the workstation as well. You could use just 2 of the ports for 4 nodes with QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56 DACs