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Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer
Aug 31, 2022 · That, in a nutshell, is what Tesla’s Project Dojo chip, interconnect, and supercomputer effort is all about. At the Hot Chips 34 conference, the chip, system, and software engineers who worked on the Dojo supercomputer unveiled many of the architectural features of the machine for the first time, and promised to talk about the performance of the Dojo system at the Tesla AI Day 2 event on ...
Deep Dive On Google’s Exascale TPUv4 AI Systems - The Next …
Oct 11, 2022 · It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. And today, at the Google Cloud Next 2022 conference, the search engine, advertising, video streaming, enterprise application, and cloud computing giant will finally make its fourth generation – and most powerful and scalable – Tensor Processing Units ...
Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch …
May 30, 2024 · The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. The Ultra Ethernet Consortium was formed in July 2023 to take on Nvidia’s InfiniBand high performance interconnect, which has quickly and quite profitably become the de facto standard …
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines
Dec 6, 2021 · Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines. December 6, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan. The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. At every level of HPC – across systems in the datacenter, within clusters of disparate and diverse server nodes, within cluster nodes with ...
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor - The Next Platform
Jan 4, 2022 · Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor. January 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 16. The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer.
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks
Oct 21, 2021 · The real bandwidth of the Sapphire Rapids HBM memory system will be defined by the number of memory channels and performance of the HBM devices on each channel. Current HBM2 devices deliver between 256 GB/sec to 410 GB/sec, which gives us an idea of the performance potential of a modern HBM2 stacked memory channel.
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
Sep 8, 2021 · Here is what matters. The Power p5 595 with 64 Power5 cores in 32 sockets running at 1.9 GHz had a rating of 306.21 on IBM’s Relative Performance (rPerf) online transaction performance benchmark test. The 240-core, 16-socket Power E1080 has an rPerf rating of 7,998.6.
Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming …
Sep 19, 2023 · The big news is that the “Sierra Forest” variant of the Xeon SP based on Intel’s “energy efficient” E-core will have a doubled-up configuration with a whopping 288 cores on the die. Sierra Forest will plug into the same “Birch Stream” server platform as the future “Granite Rapids” Xeon SP with “Redwood Cove” P-cores due in ...
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture - The Next …
Mar 31, 2022 · Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture. March 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan. With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. At least directly.