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Given that there are essentially no architectural details here other than bandwidth estimates, and the release timeline is in 2023, how exactly does this count

by titzer 6y ago

Given that there are essentially no architectural details here other than bandwidth estimates, and the release timeline is in 2023, how exactly does this count as "unveiling"? Headline should read: "NVidia working on new arm chip due in two years", or something else much more bland.

mrlento234 6y ago
Not quite. CSCS supercomputing center in Switzerland have already started receiving the hardware (https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2021/cscs-director-shares-details-about-planned-successor-to-piz-daint/ https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2021/cscs-d...). Perhaps, we may see some benchmarks. To wider HPC users, it will be only available in 2023 as the article mentioned.
- titzer 6y ago
  Hopefully some architectural details are forthcoming then! But that is not what is in this article.
- IanCutress 6y ago
  I suspect that's more racks of storage, not racks of compute. Nothing to suggest it's compute.
  - seniorivn 6y ago
    as i understand it's compute, just not cpu compute, those cpu are designed to be good enough for cuda servers
  - DetroitThrow 6y ago
    Hey Ian, I love reading your posts on Anandtech, you're a fantastic technical communicator.
- bdc-hpc 6y ago
  The Alps system at CSCS will have racks with different processors, to be installed in phases. CSCS has taken delivery of the first racks with AMD EPYC processors, for non-GPU workloads. CSCS will be one of the first customers to get their hands on Grace Hopper, but they will have to wait until 2023.
  - wombat23 6y ago
    Are there more sources for technical details about the new infrastructure? The interview linked above left me with more questions than answers.
allie1 6y ago
As AMD proved us, a lot can happen in 3 years
temp667 6y ago
The CPU cores are probably not that interesting, it's going to be the GPU and interlink stuff (pretty impressive if true) that's going to drive this?
kats 6y ago
It says they use Arm Neoverse cores so it is another processor like Fujitsu A64FX and Amazon Graviton 2.

by titzer 6y ago

mrlento234 6y ago

Not quite. CSCS supercomputing center in Switzerland have already started receiving the hardware (https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2021/cscs-director-shares-details-about-planned-successor-to-piz-daint/ https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2021/cscs-d...). Perhaps, we may see some benchmarks. To wider HPC users, it will be only available in 2023 as the article mentioned.

titzer 6y ago
Hopefully some architectural details are forthcoming then! But that is not what is in this article.
IanCutress 6y ago
I suspect that's more racks of storage, not racks of compute. Nothing to suggest it's compute.
- seniorivn 6y ago
  as i understand it's compute, just not cpu compute, those cpu are designed to be good enough for cuda servers
- DetroitThrow 6y ago
  Hey Ian, I love reading your posts on Anandtech, you're a fantastic technical communicator.
bdc-hpc 6y ago
The Alps system at CSCS will have racks with different processors, to be installed in phases. CSCS has taken delivery of the first racks with AMD EPYC processors, for non-GPU workloads. CSCS will be one of the first customers to get their hands on Grace Hopper, but they will have to wait until 2023.
- wombat23 6y ago
  Are there more sources for technical details about the new infrastructure? The interview linked above left me with more questions than answers.

allie1 6y ago

As AMD proved us, a lot can happen in 3 years

temp667 6y ago

The CPU cores are probably not that interesting, it's going to be the GPU and interlink stuff (pretty impressive if true) that's going to drive this?

kats 6y ago

It says they use Arm Neoverse cores so it is another processor like Fujitsu A64FX and Amazon Graviton 2.