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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 ...
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.
The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera - The Next Platform
Feb 29, 2024 · That $16.7 billion that Intel spent back in 2015 to acquire Altera is like $31.2 billion, so this diversion in essence cost Intel around two fabs minus the revenue or profit streams that were added to Intel’s coffers in the past eight years. As part of the unveiling of the re-newed Altera name and logo this week, Rivera gave an update on the ...
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 ...
Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud - The …
Feb 16, 2024 · A few months back we took a look at CoreWeave, which is deploying 22,000 H100 GPU accelerators to train the Inflection-2 LLM. We’ve seen other outfits pop up in recent months, like Voltage Park, which claims it has obtained 24,000 H100s it now plans to lease out at cut-rate prices. Even Cerebras Systems is building an AI compute cloud around its waferscale accelerators with the help of the ...
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI - The Next Platform
Mar 18, 2019 · Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI. March 18, 2019 Paul Teich. To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology.
Achieving Maximum Compute Throughput: PCIe vs. SXM2
Feb 2, 2018 · Maximum throughput for superior application performance. NVLink provides a high-speed path between GPUs, allowing them to communicate peak data rates of 300 gigabytes per second (GB/s), a speed 10X faster than PCIe. Unlike PCIe, with NVLink a device has multiple paths to choose from, and rather than share a central hub to communicate, they ...
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 …